Evernote buys ipad handwriting apps penultimate

Beijing time May 8 morning news, according to TheNextWeb report, after the completion of 70 million U.S. dollars in financing, cloud note service Evernote announced the acquisition of San Francisco start-up company Cocoa Box design ipad handwriting application penultimate, It is hoped that this can improve the handwriting recognition ability of Evernote.

The deal is not just penultimate revenue Evernote, penultimate is an application developed for a wider range of platforms and devices. This March, penultimate a fourth place in the ipad app download list.

In addition to penultimate own factors, Evernote also plans to apply penultimate technology to itself, hoping to further improve the Evernote handwriting recognition capabilities.

Evernote is now able to recognize handwritten text in scanned documents, and the Evernote company has also issued license plates to third parties through its Ritescript department. The acquisition of penultimate, it indicates that the user directly on the touch screen handwriting and deposit the document Evernote will become a reality. Previously, penultimate has supported saving notes to Evernote.

The detailed terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, Cocoa Box Design founder Ben Zotto will join Evernote to continue working for penultimate. Cocoa Box Design will not announce the closure of the company after the transaction is not finalized, but its 30 million users for Evernote is undoubtedly a good thing.

Evernote founder Phil Libin had hoped Evernote could exist for at least 100 years, and now Evernote is on the way. Through acquisitions to continuously improve product performance, through cooperation with investment companies (in the D-round investment, the CBC investment from China will actively promote the development of Evernote in China), expand the international market, Phil Libin is building his Evernote empire.

Evernote Series

Evernote

A cross-platform cloud stores notes that record text, sounds, images, data, etc. on the platform and mark the time and address, setting the label to look up on multiple devices.

Evernote clearly

Organize blogs, electronic magazines and articles on Web pages into an easy-to-read format, a reading memory tool.

Evernote Hello

A tool to remember a stranger, you snap a photo of someone and enter your name, phone, and email, and the program adds a time and place to meet that person.

Evernote Food

To help users record favorite food and restaurant, its icon is a Japanese sushi, by Liebing personally selected.

Evernote Peek

Mainly for school applications, it can only be downloaded through the ipad-the need to memorize all kinds of knowledge in the form of audio, animation, graphics and text storage, through the form of examination questions are called up, for students to answer to enhance the deepening of memory.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)