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OCR doesn't mean handwriting recognition, though... handwriting's a heck of a lot harder than print.
by EvilTerran 15y ago
OCR doesn't mean handwriting recognition, though... handwriting's a heck of a lot harder than print.
- patrickk 15y agoI was wondering about that as I was typing...damn that would be cool to have. If lots of people's handwriting was scanned in and used as a training dataset, that could be a way to do it on Google scale - like what they did with Google voice, training it for all different accents.
- robryan 15y agoGoogle are probably best placed to pull it off though with recaptcha.
- tomkarlo 15y agoActually, Evernote's OCR does handwriting, and at least for me, does it pretty well. It's not going to give you a transcription, but it's good enough that the doc will show up if you're searching for it.
- evgen 15y agoThat is probably because the Evernote founders were the team that developed the CalliGrapher cursive recognition engine which was used by the Apple Newton back in the day.
- tomkarlo 15y agoMaybe, but it seems to me that for search (especially with stemming / misspelling coverage) you need a much lower OCR accuracy than for converting into text. Like maybe 95% vs 99.5% - you can have an order of magnitude more errors and search would still work fine.