The Evernote developers are currently asking Japanese citizens to submit samples of their handwriting in order to expand a feature that recognizes Japanese characters from images.
For the details (and some Japanese reading practice), go here: http://www.evernote.com/about/intl/jp/support/hwr.php
To sum it up, when this feature is up, you will be able to google-search a word you wish for Evernote to detect in an image with Japanese text. The work currently being done to finish off the feature is the addition of handwriting recognition. The form here shows many kanji with boxes below. The developers want Japanese natives to write each word in its appropriate box in order for their system to have hand written versions of each radical to match their text versions.
For the details (and some Japanese reading practice), go here: http://www.evernote.com/about/intl/jp/support/hwr.php
To sum it up, when this feature is up, you will be able to google-search a word you wish for Evernote to detect in an image with Japanese text. The work currently being done to finish off the feature is the addition of handwriting recognition. The form here shows many kanji with boxes below. The developers want Japanese natives to write each word in its appropriate box in order for their system to have hand written versions of each radical to match their text versions.
