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Virtual Keyboard is just another example of today’s computer trend of smaller and faster’. Computing is now not limited to desktops and laptops, it has found its way into mobile devices like palm tops and even cell phones. But what has not changed for the last 50 or so odd years is the input device, the good old QWERTY keyboard. The virtual keyboard technology is the latest development.

The virtual keyboard technology uses sensor technology and artificial intelligence to let users work on any flat surface as if it were a keyboard. Virtual Keyboards lets you easily create multilingual text content on almost any existing platform and output it directly to PDAs or even web pages. Virtual Keyboard, being a small, handy, well-designed and easy to use application, turns into a perfect solution for cross platform text input.
The main features are: platform-independent multilingual support for keyboard text input, built-in language layouts and settings, copy/paste etc. operations support just as in a regular text editor, no change in already existing system language settings, easy and user-friendly interface and design, and small file size.

The report first gives an overview of the QWERTY keyboards and the difficulties arising from using them. It then gives a description about the virtual keyboard technology and the various types of virtual keyboards in use. Finally the advantages, drawbacks and the applications are discussed.