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Our Notes | By Andrew Sinkov
 

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We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again, we want there to be an Evernote in your language. To make that happen, we recently launched a community translation project to translate Evernote into French, German, Italian, and Spanish. This has been going really well, and now we’re ready to start the next part of the project: optimizing our handwriting recognition for these new languages.

Once again, we would like your help. Below are text samples in the languages we are currently working on. Please write them out in your language of choice, using your natural handwriting. If you make a mistake, just cross it out and keep going. Then, send us the result.

Cool bonus: Helping us means that Evernote should recognize your handwriting particularly well. That could come in handy later.

What you need

  • Blank, white sheet of paper
  • A pen with black ink (preferably a roller ball)
  • Scanner or digital camera

How this works

  1. Write out one or more of the sample texts below
  2. Scan or photograph the piece of paper (separate ones for each sample)
  3. Email the image (JPG, PNG, PDF) to our translations mailbox

Four text samples

Visit our translation project page for more information. Thanks for helping us make Evernote better.

  • Bertrand Gac

    @Ingrid : It’s wrong, uppercase accented letters are required in French.

  • Ivo

    I would also be very happy if You support cyrilic!
    All of Russia and us from Bulgaria are going to appritiate this “feature”. I mean atleast enable the program to rekognise the cyrilic text!!!

  • http://www.coubray.com Coubray Antoine

    Do you want us to broadcast that text to our personal network in order to maximize the number of samples.
    I’m french native.

  • Grant G

    Will there be an English release similar to this that will help with the recognition of English notes?

    • Andrew Sinkov

      @Grant Our English recognition is constantly improving.

  • http://weltmeisterschaftzwanzigze.hn BeesVee

    This is a great surprise for me, I will be very happy to see the German version of Evernote. Keep my fingers crossed you get that going.

  • http://tot-blog.iatp.net/ Dm. Riabichenko

    Andrew et al,

    the program has Russian interface, so why don’t you need Russian handwritings? I guess from your name that you don’t need help with the translation to Russian, but handwritings never will be redundant, I suppose.

    • Andrew Sinkov

      @Dm. Riabichenko We have already done extensive handwriting work with Russian.

  • Koen

    I’m fond of the way of working of Evernote and I’m happy to contribute! French version sent!

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