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Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition
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Jack Schaedler's 2016 essay revisits the GRAIL handwriting recognizer, detailing Gabriel Groner's 1966 IBM 360 Assembly program. The system used smoothing, thinning, and direction-based corner detection for structured drawings and flowcharts, not just text input. The RAND tablet enabled natural computer interaction.
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