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During the last forty years, Human Handwriting Processing (HHP) has most often been investigated under the frameworks of character (OCR) and pattern recognition. In recent years considerable progress has been made, and to date HHP can be viewed much more as an automatic Handwriting Reading (HR) task for the machine. In this paper we propose the use of handwriting invariants, a physical model for a first segmentation, a logical model for segmentation and recognition, a fundamental equation of handwriting, and to integrate several sources of perception and of knowledge in order to design Handwriting Reading Systems (HRS), which would be more universal systems than is currently the case. At the dawn of the 3rd millennium, we guess that HHP will be considered more as a perceptual and interpretation task requiring knowledge gained from studies on human language. This paper gives some guidelines and presents examples to design systems able to perceive and interpret, i.e., read, handwriting automatically.
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Received October 30, 1998 / Revised January 30, 1999
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Lorette, G. Handwriting recognition or reading? What is the situation at the dawn of the 3rd millenium?. IJDAR 2, 2–12 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100320050030
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