kp123 is a very basic kanji handwriting recognition tool loosely based on: http://fishsoup.net/software/kanjipad/ http://www.ookii.org/software/japaneseinput/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance This program is released under free license in the form of source code. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to mail me: evgeny@users.sourceforge.jp