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The article makes it sound like Ms Watson has a totally unique and unusual skill but there is actually a whole field of study around interpreting old handwritte

• analog31 9y ago
  Indeed, a friend of mine worked at a small college during the school year, but every summer, she had a grant to sit in a library and transcribe old European texts from microfilms. The project was just to take a huge pile of texts and get the first several lines of each one into a searchable database. Full transcription was a hoped-for future goal.
  • mathattack 9y ago
    At some point will the machines interpret all of them and tell us which are worth reading?