>From Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/03/2113200=rss
An anonymous reader writes “Researchers at the University of Massachusetts
have created a tool for automatically searching handwritten historical
documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington’s
personal papers in the Library of Congress. The most interesting part is
that the papers are scanned versions of the originals and the search tool
actually recognizes the handwritten text from these images.”
This could be the missing piece to get handheld computing in general and
Tablet PCs in particular into the mainstream. The problem with “digital
ink” input has always been interoperability. Tablet PCs do a wonderful job
of integrating ink into the system, and have been able to search for
handwritten data in documents for years. But once you send that document to
someone else, the value drops dramatically since they can’t search for
handwritten data unless they too have a Tablet PC. This system at UMass
could be the first step into integrating handwriting into the internet at
large.
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