In order to start using PenReader, right after its installation, please, mark it in the device “Language&Keyboard” settings to enable this application (to open your device settings press “Menu” hard button in the home screen and tap «Settings»>«Language&Keyboard»). In this case you will receive the following notification: “This input method can be able to collect all the text you type, including personal data like passwords and credit card numbers. It comes from the application PenReader. Use this input method?”. Press “Ok” to proceed.
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Please, note that PenReader does not collect any data you enter and all input information remains strictly confidential. |
After, please, set PenReader as the active input method. Open any application that supports text input, long press an input field in order to invoke the “Edit text” menu, tap “Input method” and choose PenReader. Now the program is ready to use.
At the first launch of PenReader in any application, where data input is available, you will receive the message containing useful information of how to become familiar with this manual and describing several macros, which will facilitate your efficient work with the application.
To start writing, press the input field and you will pass to PenReader main screen. This screen contains a text input field, a drawing field and the following buttons:
· «Configuration»: this button looks like a small square with either letters of the current input language or numerals. Tap this button several times successively to switch the active input language or turn on the numerals configuration. Note that you can only switch to the language, that is enabled in the list of active input languages (see “PenReader settings>Active input languages” for details). Moreover, long pressing of this field will open the list of PenReader active input languages.
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«Backward»:
this button looks like a small square with a triangle pointing to the left - . Tap this button once to move the cursor one letter
or one symbol backward. Long press this button until the cursor reaches the
beginning of the line or long press and then release it to move the cursor just
several letters or symbols backward.
· «Space»: tap this button to make a space between words.
· «Backspace»: tap this button once to delete the last letter or symbol. Long press this button until the whole line is deleted or long press and then release it to delete several letters or symbols.
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«Expand»:
this button looks like a small square with a triangle pointing upward before
tapping - , and downward after
tapping -
. It allows to
expand or hide additional buttons:
- «Hide»: you will go out of PenReader main screen by pressing this button and won’t be able to draw characters until you press the “Maximize” button, which will appear at the bottom of the screen.
- “Alt” button is for switching from punctuation marks mode to special characters mode. When special characters mode is active, the dot on the button is green.
- “Upper case”
button : when this button
is pressed for the first time, the arrow becomes white, and the next one letter
is input in upper case. When pressed for the second time, the dot on the button
becomes green, it switches to “Caps Lock” mode and all next letters are input
in the upper case until this function is disabled.
- The rest of additional buttons contains punctuation marks such as “?”, “!”, “;”, etc. or special characters like “%”, “&”, “@”, etc. depending on the input context (text field or URL bar). Long pressing of some buttons will enable more additional marks and characters.
Press “Menu” hard button of the device in order to navigate to the settings of PenReader, to change the active input method, to read the user manual of the program and to pass to Android Market page, where you can purchase a commercial version of PenReader in case you are using a demo one.
Use all the drawing field of the main screen to write characters. Please, note that the way you draw characters should correspond to the recognition mode currently specified in the application settings (see “Recognition modes” for details).