Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Online Handwriting Recognition


Agency Management System (AMS) include Document Management and lead management. we talked about OCR, ICR in our previous talks. today we are going to talk On-line recognition as part of our talk on handwriting recognition.

On-line recognition
On-line handwriting recognition involves the automatic conversion of text as it is written on a special digitizer or PDA, where a sensor picks up the pen-tip movements X(t),Y(t) as well as pen-up/pen-down switching. That kind of data is known as digital ink and can be regarded as a dynamic representation of handwriting. The obtained signal is converted into letter codes which are usable within computer and text-processing applications.

The elements of an on-line handwriting recognition interface typically include:

  • a pen or stylus for the user to write with.
  • a touch sensitive surface, which may be integrated with, or adjacent to, an output display.
  • a software application which interprets the movements of the stylus across the writing surface, translating the resulting curves into digital text.

we continue our talk on online handwriting recognition in our next post.

ref: agency management system, insurance sfa, wikipedia