[js1138]

So? You still need to train a person to recognize handwriting.

I think the point is that a reasonably smart person can read many other people's handwriting without retraining. Not to mention excentric and arty fonts.

[Doctor Stochastic]

So can many of the newer programs. At least in the laboratory. I don't know what is available commercially. The work I did was on computer recognition of non-roman scripts. It's also much more accurate to read words than to identify individual letters.