Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

 (jackschaedler.github.io)

41 points | by at1as 15 hours ago

4 comments

  • pjmlp 22 minutes 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.

  • dcrazy 13 hours ago
    Oh hey, it’s Graffiti! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
  • yubblegum 13 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 15 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 14 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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