[bksvol-discuss] Re: Kind of OT, Question about new OCR Technology
- From: "Lisa Belville" <lisab12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 04:53:23 -0500
Hi, Monica.
Thanks for the information.
I can understand why developing technology to recognize handwriting is so
problematic. I don't think my signature looks the same from signing to
signing, so having something do this accurately is no easy task. There's
probably not that vast variation with numerals, though, and there's probably
a data base somewhere with every possible street number/city and state
combination for the software to consider.
Of course it will be expensive. Blind people just have all of this money
we're just itching to spend on adaptive stuff
. <sarcastic laugh>
Lisa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monica Willyard" <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:26 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Kind of OT, Question about new OCR Technology
Hi, Lisa. The U.S. Postal Service has been developing this kind of
software, and they have made a lot of progress with the technology.
However, they are scanning addresses and such, not page upon page of
handwriting. I do know that they use scanners made my AGFA, a company
that provides scanning solutions to large corporations. That is as far as
my knowledge goes except to say that this new technology probably has a
pretty hefty price tag.
Monica
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At Friday 6/2/2006 07:29 AM, you wrote:
Hi, all.
I honestly can't remember if I've posed this question on list before. If
so, my apologies.
A friend of mine said someone told her about new scanning products being
developed that will have some ability to recognize handwriting.
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