Recognition API Architecture

An ink-enabled application communicates with the recognition system through the Tablet PC Platform APIs. Applications use the IInkRecognizer object to accomplish this. The Tablet PC Platform interacts with your recognizer by using the C-style interfaces that are documented in this section. In the following figure, the area inside the dashed line shows what is documented in this section.

You should implement the C-style interfaces discussed in Required Recognition APIs when writing your customized recognizer.

Under no circumstances will your recognizer be called directly by an ink-enabled application. Instead, applications will call either the Automation APIs or the Managed APIs to get results from your recognizer.