Re: OCR for handwritten pages

From: Randy Stern <randy_stern_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:40:51 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Parascript (http://www.parascript.com/) has handwriting recognition 
software, but it only works reliably for things like forms, checks, and 
addresses where there is a lot of dictionary-like context to verify the 
image recognition.  Generalized free text hand writing recognition is un 
unsolved problem....

At 01:50 PM 1/13/2010 -0700, Han, Yan wrote:
>Hello, Colleagues,
>Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at 
>least think it is better than hiring a student key-in.
>I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting.
>
>Thanks,
>Yan
Received on Wed Jan 13 2010 - 16:42:36 EST