[RNLD] handwriting recognition software?

[Claire Bowern]

Undergraduates. 
Seriously, there's so much contextualisation that goes on when reading handwriting, unless there's a machine learning model of the language, I can pretty much guarantee that an undergrad or two with some epigraphy training and a general idea of possible syllables in the language will do much better than any program.
Claire


On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 1:41 PM, James N. Stanford wrote:

> Dear RNLD,
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> Does anyone have a suggestion about handwriting recognition software? An Abenaki student is trying to take 400 pages of old documents of handwritten Abenaki and turn them into text, i.e., from a scanned handwritten PDF to an editable Word document. It's written in a Roman alphabet script. 
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> Any ideas? 
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> Thanks, 
> Jim
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> James N. Stanford, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Linguistics & Cognitive Science
> Dartmouth College
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> www.dartmouth.edu/~jstanford (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jstanford)
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