Pinyin dot machine is an electronic equipment based on pinyin text recognition technology. It usually consists of the following parts:

Scanner: It is used to scan the text on the paper and convert it into a digital character.

Coder: The text encoded scanned to the scanner is encoded into Pinyin text to identify in the machine.

Words: It is used to store and analyze the text scanned to the machine to determine which words and phrases contain.

Pinyin engine: The text used to convert scanned to the machine into Pinyin text, and provides a Pinyin input method related to Chinese language.

Operating system: It is used to manage machine hardware and software resources and provide users with various services related to Pinyin dot machines.

Display: It is used to display the various text information processed by the Pinyin dot machine, including the text and the text entered by the user input in the scanner.

Keyboard: The text used to enter the user input, usually includes one or more pinyin input method keyboard, so that users can use Pinyin to input Chinese text