I've always liked using the Traditional Chinese handwriting recognition built into Mac OS X because the Mac trackpad doubles as a tablet with my finger as a stylus, and since it recognizes all radicals and many sub-kanji (I can has ?, part of 衣, no problem). It is annoying for the 10% or so of times that I can't convince Chinese to be Japanese, but it beat Windows where all I had was http://kanji.sljfaq.org. So I was delighted when I installed Google IME on Windows and saw it had handwriting!




And it works well, given that I have to click the mouse button to paint, there being a distinct lack of magic Mac trackpad on my Dell (though I do note the inability to draw radicals ).

So I go to install Google Japanese IME on Mac and ... no handwriting recognition? Before I complain to Google (hahaha), wanted to see if Koohiites had any ideas, am I just missing it?

Or are there any other good ways to get handwriting recognition on Mac OS? Has anyone reverse-engineered how sljfaq's handwriting recognition works?

It is there, it's just not very apparent when you open it up. Go to the Google IME folder in your Applications folder. I think it was there somewhere and I added it to my dock to make finding it easier (sorry, haven't used Macs in a while, I know this isn't very specific)

EDIT: Looks like you like also get to it from the drop down IME list.
http://nozomi05.hatenablog.com/entry/2013/02/06/110011

DOH!!! There it is, thank you!