SoftWriting for Windows

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Developer’s Description

Convert your handwritten notes and machine print pages into text files.

SoftWriting is the only product available anywhere that enables you to convert documents containing handwritten notes and hand printed text into editable computer files such as Word documents. CharacTell's flagship product, is based on our proven technology for recognizing non-connected handwriting and machine-printed text. Whether you are a student taking notes in the classroom or library, or a professional at a meeting, SoftWriting is for you. Reducing the need to retype, saves both time and effort.

SoftWriting for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: May 21, 2009

Latest update: May 20, 2009

Version: 4.5

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows ME
Windows NT
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 95
Windows 10
Windows Vista
Windows 98
Windows 2003

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 44,329

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

3/5

8 User Votes

Not worth the money, time, or effort.
RBLampDecember 11, 2010
Pros
A noble attempt at a difficult problem but...
Cons
It doesn't work. At least, it didn't for me. My handwriting isn't perfect but it's plenty legible, but not to this software.
Summary
Tried multiple different software settings (dpi, direct scan into software or imported .tif or .jpg file, TWAIN settings, 1 mm diameter lead mechanical pencil on unlined paper, fine-point pen on lined paper) and never got a usable document. Not even close. Typical results: <1% of written words correctly recognized; ~30% came out as English words, just not the right ones; the rest were pure gibberish. I don't have the time it would take to train the software. It would be faster to retype the text myself. Bottom line: if you don't have grammar-school-perfect handwriting and lots of time, don't waste your money.
Still Not Stable
ddcerebrateApril 20, 2007
Pros
Free trial download of Softwriting seemed to perform surprisingly well for the price... but:
Cons
Unfortunately, once I installed the full version, SoftWriting became nearly useless due to error messages and failure to read. Today I'm waiting for tech support to respond to my email, to explain how I can prevent SoftWriting from displaying a "JUSTICR.DLL" error message, then hanging half way thru a document scan. (Hmmmm... JUSTICR.DLL is the *exact* same DLL another user complained about, way back in 2003!). Thank you for that warning - too bad I didnt heed it! I should have purchased Omnipage.
Summary
Impressed
southasian_gurlDecember 24, 2006
Pros
I've never had an OCR software before but i did not expect this to work at all because of the reviews so far but i tried it anywayz and it works great! i love it, and i will definitly use it
Cons
doesn't detect accents or other symbols well
Summary
Worked for me
November 10, 2004
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Summary
I used it to scan a catalog from our wholesaler and output it into word files. I worked good, it didn't keep the page formating, but it gave me all the text, and that's what I wanted. It was inaccurate about 3-5% of the time, when it would confuse an S for a 5 and things like that, but all the ones it did mess up like that the text from the scan was a bit blury, so it's understandable.
very good program saved me a lot of time
January 27, 2004
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Summary
it changed my scanned jpeg file of a text into a word document. It was very fast and precise making only a few mistakes
Too too bad
December 23, 2003
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I was looking through the specs for this product, and it had all the features I wanted. Reasonably priced, ocr from scanner, israeli company, etc... Too bad it doesn't actually work. Maybe they'll fix it in the next version.
Errors upon errors and i'm not a computer novice
April 9, 2003
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I gave this product a download. It's junk. It installed fine on my WinXP Home and scanned using my Lexmark X73 but it generated application errors left and right trying to convert the scan to text. Here is one of the errors: Access violation at address 10031Ba9 in module 'justicr.dll'. Read of address 00000067 Come on guys you can't let the application bomb on a standard function. I do not recommend this product. I am uninstalling right now. PS - I gave it the benefit of the doubt and tried to "add new page" to test another page and that failed as well with a memory violation. I wasn't even scanning hand written text, just some news articles for a client. Ugg..
nothing
October 15, 2002
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