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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 -- Aaron Rubinstein Digital Project Manager W.E.B. Du Bois - Verizon Digitization Project Special Collections and University Archives University of Massachusetts, Amherst Tel: (413)545-9637 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/