Many people think that the main reason for the decline of the Wubi input method is that it lost to the Pinyin input method, and was replaced by the Pinyin input method. In fact, this is only the superficial reason. The continuous improvement and development of OCR technology for the following reasons:
1. PC shipments continue to decline. In recent years, with the popularization of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, people are more inclined to use portable and lightweight mobile devices for daily work and entertainment, reducing their dependence on PCs, which has led to a gradual decline in PC market shipments. Users only choose to use PCs for some specific application scenarios. This should be undisputed.
2. Friends who are familiar with Wubi input method should know that its main advantage is touch typing, but touch typing is only available on PC. Why is Wubi difficult to learn, but it can be developed and popularized? The main reason is that it is fast to type Chinese characters and can realize complete blind typing, thus greatly improving the efficiency of text entry, but this is only useful on the PC keyboard, and the area for text input on mobile phones is very limited, and it is impossible to use it like You can use both hands to touch type at the same time like a PC keyboard, but now the number of mobile phone users is increasing, while the number of PC users is decreasing. It is reasonable for the number of Wubi input method users to decrease continuously.
3. Continuous improvement of pinyin and handwriting input methods. Pinyin and handwriting input methods are continuously optimized with the help of big data and artificial intelligence deep learning to make them more intelligent, and the input speed has also been greatly improved. However, if they are applied on a PC, they still cannot compete with Wubi.
4. The development of OCR technology. OCR technology allows users to directly take photos of paper documents or recognize them into computer-editable tables and texts through a scanner, without requiring a lot of manual typing and entry, which greatly improves work efficiency (such as Jinming recognition, which can merge pictures in large quantities Excle, word, and also supports structured recognition of various certificates and bills), which greatly reduces the demand for professional text entry workers, thus indirectly causing the shrinking number of Wubi input method users.
5. The Wubi input method is self-styled, not enterprising, and lacks innovation and update. The author (a certain company) of Wubi input method does not devote enough time and energy to the work of continuous updating and upgrading. At the same time, it keeps suppressing those authors who improve this program in the name of copyright, resulting in no improvement of this program. The decline is also within reason. #Wubi Input Method Failed#