There was some work done in the UMass CS Dept[1] a long time ago.  I'm 
not aware of any end-user software available, though some proprietary 
systems like Evernote[2] have pretty advanced text in image recognition 
capabilities.  The high accuracy necessary for recognizing the text of 
entire documents is probably a very serious hurdle for technology like 
this.

[1] http://orange.cs.umass.edu/irdemo/hw-demo/
[2] http://www.evernote.com/

Best,

Aaron


On 1/13/2010 3:50 PM, Han, Yan wrote:
> Hello, Colleagues,
> Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in.
> I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting.
>
> Thanks,
> Yan

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