I remember a science and technology TV program on Belgian TV back in the early nineties where they showed a PC program that could convert handwriting to text. A

I remember a science and technology TV program on Belgian TV back in the early nineties where they showed a PC program that could convert handwriting to text. Amazing! But when they showed it in action, it couldn’t do cursive “because nobody writes cursive anyway”, according to the American developer. At the time, I assumed that the guy just made that claim to excuse a serious limitation of his software: why would anyone not write cursive (which is faster)?