[Athen] OCR for Handwriting Recognition

[Sean J Keegan]

Hello all,

Has anyone used an OCR package for handwriting recognition?  I have a 
student who wants to use this solution to digitize handwritten notes (he 
is unable to use a computer for any length of time, but does computer 
programming).  The student uses a Mac and I am not aware of any 
mainstream applications for that platform that support handwriting 
recognition.

I have considered recommending the use of a Livescribe Pen and then use 
the MyScript app for the handwriting recognition, but he was not 
thrilled about this solution.  From what I have gathered, the desire is 
to write out the actual code and then have this "recognized" into text 
that he can copy/paste into programs.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Take care,
Sean

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Sean Keegan
Associate Director, Assistive Technology
Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University
http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae