Cursive Recognition Engine Released
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Lexicus, a Palo Alto, California start-up, has officially released a powerful cursive handwriting recognition engine that it’s been publicly demonstrating since the first quarter of this year. We’ve seen the engine, which is aptly named Longhand, demonstrated on both Microsoft’s Windows/Pen and GO’s PenPoint and it is very impressive.
Longhand is based on a dictionary of 25,000 words. The dictionary is a separate module allowing application developers to build custom recognition systems for their applications (for forms-based applications, for example). Developers who build their own dictionaries can interchange dictionaries between platforms running Longhand.
The company claims that, with the system’s high walk-up accuracy, training is not necessary. We’re in the process of scheduling interviews with Lexicus engineers and will share that information with you in our next issue.
Lexicus
345 Forest Ave.,
Palo Alto, CA 94301
415-323-4771
Transcribed from Pen-Based Computing, Volume 2, Number 4 — October 1992. Page 4.