Search Engines for Handwritten Documents 172
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writes "Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have created a tool for automatically searching handwritten historical documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington's personal papers in the Library of Congress.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."
Who still reads those? (Score:5, Funny)
Doc (Score:3, Funny)
This is so cool! (Score:3, Funny)
Like, so 10 years ago.
Re:Hard to read! (Score:3, Funny)
That's because it's written in a dead language.
English.
KFG
Uh Oh (Score:0, Funny)
Yes, but what they don't tell you... (Score:3, Funny)
Good Work! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who still reads those? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is nothing new (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The search tool? (Score:3, Funny)
It's not OCR (Score:4, Funny)
It's different. With OCR these rays of light scan the original, translate each scanpoint to discrete RGB values, and do pattern recognition.
With this system, they just read the discrete RGB values directly from pixels of documents scanned in with rays of light, then they do recognition of patterns. See, it's totally different.
National Treasure (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's not OCR (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Umm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good Work! (Score:5, Funny)
Personally, I think it fucks.
Re:Umm (Score:2, Funny)
You write down exactly what you want to find in exactly the same handwriting that the document is written in and then it blocks scans it for what you wrote... duh.
spoofing (Score:3, Funny)