Quick Question about Wacom Tablet.

[Ryou-kun]

My dad ask me to find something that will allow him to write a Chinese's character on a tablet or something that is connected to a PC and have it display on a PC screen, so he can easily search up movies, tv shows, etc.

I thought of myself if Wacom Tablet would work, so I tried to google any info. regarding someone asking a similar question, but I cannot find it.

I am curious if any of you guys know about it.

If you do, does it work?

 

Or it is better to buy an Android Tablet, download "StylusBeta" and either ChromeCast it, MiraCast it or PC Remote it.

Or maybe buy an affordable Windows 8 tablet?

 

I know this is peripherals to PC but please bear with me about it.

[Rorgash]

you use wacoms to draw pictures, not characters doubt it would work, what would work is just having google translate the letters and copy pasting, dont know of any other way

[Ryou-kun]

you use wacoms to draw pictures, not characters doubt it would work, what would work is just having google translate the letters and copy pasting, dont know of any other way

I have tried Google Translate before, but it is annoying and infuriating because A) I can't read Chinese's Characters. B) My parents has limited knowledge on English, so they can't properly translate the Chinese's character from word to word to me otherwise I will zone out.

I thought of getting a Wacom Tablet to let him write it and be done with it.

 

Well, I think it might work if I add the Chinese's Language Pack onto the W7, then add a keyboard dock on the task bar, etc.

 

But I need some confirmation that someone actually made it work. 

[Keiichi]

You pretty much need a piece of software to allow you to take handwriting and be able to convert it, this is pretty normal on tablets and phones with stylus's and this kind of functionality comes build in to write something and use it in a google search, but with PC its a lot less available as its not something that is wanted for the most part.

 

You have a couple options though that I've tested with my Wacom tablet.

 

If you are running on Windows 7 or 8 Microsoft includes a journal program built in that has tablet support that you can write too then with its lasso tool you can select your writing and convert it to text, then copy-paste it into a google search box (yeah very tedious and kinda stupid but yeah...) search for "Journal" in windows to find the program.

 

2nd option is Microsoft created the OneNote app that's part of their office suit however your able to download it for free from www.onenote.com with limited functionality, after installing you will have to use it in a limited mode if you don't own a key for Microsoft office and it also requires you to login to a Microsoft account to use it. Just like Journal it will be a process of writing then copy pasting its conversion.

 

When testing this I did this in English and it worked fine but I do not have Chinese language support installed so I'm not so sure how well it will work out if there is even support for Chinese characters in these programs.

 

 

Thinking about it, as you said wouldn't it just be easier to install the Chinese language packs to the PC and have the on screen keyboard running with Chinese characters for him to click?

[Ryou-kun]

Thinking about it, as you said wouldn't it just be easier to install the Chinese language packs to the PC and have the on screen keyboard running with Chinese characters for him to click?

Sadly, it doesn't work out that way compare to English. For English, we can pretty much create words by using letter while Chinese's character is like word or full word. It is extremely difficult to do it without a proper stuff that will allow him to hand write it and send it go Google, so he can search movies/TV etc.

How about try to imagine all of your keys on your keyboard in any words, every keys on your keyboard is in words rather letters? Let me know if you can "manage" to do anything with it.

Anyway, I found out an android tablet might work. I can try to hand write it and search it on my tablet at Google Chrome that my account is sign in. Then go to the desktop PC, go to Google and look up the history search from the tablet.

Well, I was nice for you to help me out.

Thank you for your help. I hope you have a nice day you wonderful sir or ma'am.