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[tobltobs]

Character separation is much harder, bordering on impossible, with handwriting. Also look at all all the handwriting where you need to understand the context to eg. differ a 'm' from an 'nn'.

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I thought facial recognition would border on the impossible, but that seems to be a solved problem today.

And yes, context is needed to recognize cursive. At the very least a word frequency combined with a dictionary should get "most likely" recocgnitions.

For example, my OCR software (for printed text) often recognizes ? as }. Come on.