Jani PATOKALLIO wrote:
> Renfield Kuroda wrote:
> > Good point -- the most popular PDA in Japan, Sharp's Zaurus, has
> > excellent handwriting recognition. And as I'm sure you know
> > handwriting recog is fairly advanced in Japan b/c of the rigorous
> > rules for writing (there is only one correct way to write
> > Japanese).
>
> The flip side of the coin is that Japanese OCR has to deal with
> 2000+ characters as opposed to 52, and rapid Japanese handwriting
> tends to degenerate into a scrawl that even the natives have problems
> dealing with.
<snip>
Yet there is apparently a high-speed OCR system in use for sorting
mail in Japan. There's a very brief description of this at
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/tech/review/1998/high98/information/i8/
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Received on Thu Jan 25 20:47:21 2001