Search Engines for Handwritten Documents

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writes "Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have created a tool for automatically searching handwritten historical documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington's personal papers in the Library of Congress.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."

Comments

Sure. Lots of arists/commercial artists do.

[aristus]

With ink pots and nibs and everything. But, like fish-tickling and lice-picking, it's a dying art.