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December 05, 2004

Handwritten search

As if search could not become more diversely applied to the world - surprise! - the University of Massachusetts is now developing search for handwritten documents:

Researchers create tool to automatically search handwritten historical documents

So what? Surely this is just a novelty? Not quite - note that this method relies on the use of comparing images to a database of words. Effectively, we're talking about the application of image search here, grabbing useful information from static images. I'm sure that won't be lost on too many people in SEO.

Posted by brian_turner at December 5, 2004 11:21 PM

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