Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

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• dcrazy 22 hours ago
  Oh hey, it’s Graffiti! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
• pjmlp 9 hours ago
  Yet I still cannot easily use handwriting recognition on my tablets, regardless of AI and machine learning algorithms everywhere.

  It is still patiently word after word, correcting them every now and then.

  And naturally only mostly works when using English, not any other human language that I would also like to use.
• yubblegum 22 hours ago
  That Alan Kay video is unreal. It took h/w and materials engineering a fairly long time to catch up with the visionaries.
• dweisinger 1 day ago
  I can remember the early days of OCR and handwriting recognition. At that time, it was a difficult problem. Things have changed.
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  • 392 1 day ago
    what is the state of the art now, that runs on-device? the article didn't mention the Q$ family, but I haven't found anything better than that plus mixing/co-judging with a dynamic-time-warping based approach
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    • WalterBright 22 hours ago
      I found that AI can even decipher Suetterlin! Oh well, so much for my secret handwriting.
    • criddell 22 hours ago
      I tried to search for Q$ but google returned no results. What is it?

      For my handwriting, the ParaGraph engine inside Evernote worked perfectly. I believe it's the same system that the US postal service uses.

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      • oneearedrabbit 20 hours ago
        https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/qdollar.html
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        • criddell 19 hours ago
          That looks pretty limited.