Introduction to MyScript Handwriting Recognition technology

MyScript is an online handwriting recognition engine which processes digital ink to convert it to text or even search through it. This digital ink is produced when writing with a digital pen, a pointing device or even your fingertip.

By using an online signal, MyScript obtains clear and rich data compared to most scanned images. MyScript uses both the time ordered digital ink and the image (bitmap) as it appears. Please note that MyScript cannot use input obtained as image data from scanners or cameras.

MyScript technology therefore provides fast handwriting, equation and shape recognition as well as impressive accuracy rates whatever the writing style used.

MyScript supported handwriting styles:

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MyScript handwriting recognition engine

Handwriting Recognition Apple

 

Windows Handwriting Recognition

Languages: A perfectly mastered process

The MyScript handwriting recognition engine uses different language recognition kernels in order to support Western, Cyrillic, Arabic and Asian languages. It has been trained through millions of handwritten samples from native writers, in order to provide the highest possible accuracy rates.

Language is complex, so to go past simple character recognition, MyScript integrates a large range of linguistic information into the recognition process:

  • Lexicons: a subset of words stored in a dictionary and used to improve the accuracy of recognition by narrowing down the recognition possibilities to existing words.
  • Language models: models providing linguistic statistics on the occurrence of sequences of words. They describe how common language is formed and the probability of written words to occur together, improving accuracy according to the context.
  • DataFormats: library of regular or predefined expressions that describe the expected format of specific information (e.g. phone numbers, dates, emails, postal codes, etc) in order to improve the accuracy of recognition.
  • Character subset: list of expected characters in a given application. By using a character subset, possible ambiguities between characters are avoided.

 

MyScript Shape Recognition

Shape recognition

MyScript not only supports alphabetic, numerical or punctuation characters, it also ra powerful shape recognition engine which supports the most commonly used shapes such as:

  • lines,
  • parallelograms,
  • circles,
  • arrows, 
  • triangles,
  • diagrams.
MyScript Digital Ink

Correction detection

MyScript is also a sophisticated text correction engine.

Nobody is perfect and we all make mistakes and cross out words, write over letters several times or add new text while writing notes!

MyScript technology can identify and deal with writing mistakes, which is particularly appreciated in Form Processing industries where rigorous data validation is required.

A powerful technology serving any device and any use case

Available through flexible Software Development Kits or end-user applications, MyScript can be easily tuned and integrated into any third party application associated with digital pens, paper pads, interactive whiteboards, phones, Mobile Internet Devices, tablet PCs, GPSs, eBooks or graphic tablets.

 

Handwriting recognition for Windows, Apple, Android, iOS Linux …

MyScript is available for various standard and embedded platforms and is optimized integration of handwriting recognition capabilities into commonly used operating systems such as Windows, Windows Mobile, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Embedded Linux, Android and Symbian. MyScript can be also ported on proprietary systems on demand.