Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

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• dcrazy 12 hours ago
  Oh hey, it’s Graffiti! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
• yubblegum 11 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 14 hours 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 13 hours 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 11 hours ago
      I found that AI can even decipher Suetterlin! Oh well, so much for my secret handwriting.
    • criddell 12 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 10 hours ago
        https://depts.washington.edu/acelab/proj/dollar/qdollar.html
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        • criddell 9 hours ago
          That looks pretty limited.