High speed text input to computer using handwriting

✍ Scribed by C. G. Leedham; Y. Qiao

• Book ID: 104628676
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 731 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-4277
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00119666

✦ Synopsis

In this article we consider speech, keyboards and handwriting as mechanisms for direct text entry into computer, justify the use of Pitman's handwritten shorthand as a potentially high speed machine compatible text input medium and describe our work on the automatic recognition and transcription of Pitman's handwritten shorthand. It is concluded that handwriting offers a potentially attractive means of entering text into computer and that Pitman's handwritten shorthand exhibits many features of a machinography or machine compatible script.