In the last decade, significant, largely-governmental funding has been applied to the automatic transcription of handwritten documents. Uses for this kind of technology are somewhat limited given that the numbers of handwritten documents are on the decline. However, certain types of handwritten historical records can be crucial for genealogical research in that they identify key vital facts. In...

The Tablet PC version of Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system includes components that recognise handwriting. The data structures and objects used to store handwriting in Tablet PCs are called “ink”. The recognition of handwriting appears to be quite slow. A technical introduction to ink and the definition of the interfaces that allow the creation of purpose built handwriting recognition mod...

In this paper, we introduce a new syllabic model for handwriting recognition. We propose a supervised syllabification approach of the French language for building a vocabulary of syllables. A statistical n-gram language model of syllables is trained on a Wikipedia corpus. The handwriting recognition system, based on optical character HMM, performs a two pass decoding, integrating the proposed s...

This paper introduces the theoretical foundation for the development of a pen-based system dedicated to helping to teach handwriting in primary schools. Knowledge given by a kinematic theory of rapid human movements is used. The system proposed includes a letter model generator which is used to create letter shapes with a human-like kinematics. The system generates feedback to pupils after a mu...

Standardized writing assessments such as the Minnesota Handwriting Assessment (MHA) can inform interventions for handwriting difficulties, which are prevalent among school-aged children. However, these tests usually involve the laborious task of subjectively rating the legibility of the written product, precluding their practical use in some clinical and educational settings. This study describ...

BACKGROUND Frailty is detected by weight loss, weakness, slow walking velocity, reduced physical activity or poor endurance/exhaustion. Handwriting has not been examined in the context of frailty, despite its functional importance. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to examine quantitative handwriting measures in people meeting 0, 1, and 2 or more (2+) frailty criteria. We also examined if handwriting pa...

BACKGROUND Handwriting skills, which are crucial for success in school, communication, and building children's self-esteem, have been observed to be poor in individuals with autism. Little information exists on the handwriting of children with autism, without delineation of specific features that can contribute to impairments. As a result, the specific aspects of handwriting in which individual...

This paper deals with the problem of o3-line handwritten text recognition. It presents a system of text recognition that exploits an original principle of adaptation to the handwriting to be recognized. The adaptation principle is based on the automatic learning, during the recognition, of the graphical characteristics of the handwriting. This on-line adaptation of the recognition system relies...

In this work, we propose a 3D space handwriting recognition system by combining 2D space handwriting models and 3D space ligature models based on that the most different parts between 2D space handwriting characters and 3D space handwriting characters are the shapes of ligatures. We design the ligature model not dependent on each character but dependent on the incoming and the outgoing vector. ...