Hello Peter, Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 11:08:20 AM, you wrote: > Hi Listers, > I've been wondering if anyone has used hand writing recognition software > (or Intelligent Character recognition)? > This software can be utilised on (particularly) cursive hand writing and > converts it to text as opposed to OCR which is used on block text formats. > ( results can be up to 97% successful -but I think that's exaggerating !!) > I've used AABBY Fine Reader a number of times on text pages from books but > I keep looking at all the material I have that has been hand written and > shudder at trying to translate it all manually. Especially when your a two > fingered pecker on the keyboard like myself !. > Has anyone used a free version of such a software with any success or am I > delving into unknown territory? I've noticed some software such as AABBY > Flexicapture but at $400 way out of my league! > Hoping someone can point to something that might be useful? You ask an interesting question Peter, one I'll sit back and watch with interest. My first thought after looking at some of my old letters from 1861 and a bit later, is that piece of software will have to be damn intelligent to decipher some of those flowery swirls both above and below the line in that cursive script. I've only been able to properly transcribe some letters after looking at the word repetitions and the use of the first letter in each word within the sentences, and then looking at the likely possibilities. After countless coffees too of course and forced repeats of each transcription to double check. As you say OCR just won't cut it and the thought of having to transcribe lots of these letters is cause enough to distract you onto other things<g>. Again, thanks for the question; It at least made me spend a few minutes checking out Flexicapture. Cheers Dave Cripps -- David Cripps, Tasmania <[1]cripps@netspace.net.au> References 1. mailto:cripps@netspace.net.au