> > From what I remember from the press release, the Amstrad penpad thingy > > "learnt" over time what your handwriting was like. While it proabably has > > more memory than the SAM, and voice recogition requires more memory, > > something, even syllabalic commands would be feasible. Using this method. > > But then, I've only ever programmed in BASIC... > > > > Yeah but reconising characters on a bit of paper which you scan in, or draw > on your penpad (or whatever) is a damn sight easier. There's OCR (Optical > Character Recognition) s/w bundled with lots of Amiga/PC (etc) hand > scanners, and I think the Post Office have used it for years to > automatically read postcodes, though I'm not certain about that.
OCR works fine on typed characters, but doesn't stand a chance with handwriting. That's why it has taken years for the PO to develop systems that can have a guess at handwriting. Tim.
