They don’t have AI that can read cursive?
According to another article regarding this need, apparently AI is having a hard time learning cursive and the old English. Getting things more wrong that right. So it is still learning.
Which I find interesting that it is difficult for AI to recognize historical documents. Let alone interpret them.
Those of us who still read and write in cursive know it can be as unique as one’s own personality in how it is expressed.
Having read literally thousands of 18th and 19th century documents, it can be quite challenging. Many cursive letters then were different than today. F’s were often interchanged with S’s. Vocabulary was different and misspellings or alternate spellings of even common words abound. Ink and pencil on documents is often faded or smudged or the paper has toned or decayed. Lots of issues.
I have often transcribed documents where you had to leave certain parts (indecipherable words) blank until you could read the rest of the document and have an idea of what they were trying to say in the previous blank parts.
Yes. The tech has been available for a couple years. They have been working on text from the Vatican library written in Latin. The computer needs a learning phase, but can get it down.
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