Well, PDAs don't exactly do recognition of hand writing.  If you want the 
PDA to recognize what you write, you have to print, not use cursive, and 
typically you have to use a set of symbols that aren't exactly all print 
letters.  Like an a is an up-side-down V, essentially a capital A without 
the cross bar.  I believe that is still the case on most PDAs.

Many PDAs also have a mode where you can scribble whatever you want, but 
it doesn't quote recognize quote what you write, it just stores the image.

Lastly, there most definitely is software out there that recognizes hand 
writing.  Trust me, the U.S. Post Office isn't sorting all those letters 
by hand.  Sure, a lot of mail, especially junk mail has computer 
generated address printing, but a lot of people still hand address snail 
mail.

OK, having said that, I believe that software is pretty sophisticated and 
also pretty limited.  It's primary goal is to get the zip code.  Secondly, 
it is probably tuned pretty well to search out the two letter state 
abbreviations so it probably wouldn't be very good for reading a hand 
written full page.

  --
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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