A UMass Amherst computer science professor has developed an automated keyword-retrieval program that could make searching handwritten documents easier for researchers and students. Raghavan Manmatha, ...

The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, "ginesthoi." ...

Handwritten document recognition and classification constitute a pivotal area in document analysis, interfacing computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition. This domain seeks to ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority from ...

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Though handwriting is widely believed to be a dying art, it has a number of benefits. Writing documents by hand improves memory, helps motor skills in children and contributes to the history of some ...