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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been hearing that AI exists which can sometimes recognize art forgeries by the patterns of their brush strokes. Is anyone aware of similar work in the area of handwriting recognition? I dream of the day when I can feed an unidentified
(or more frequently, illegible) handwriting sample into a computer and receive some suggestions!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, andrea<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">(Ms.) Andrea Cawelti
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Ward Music Cataloger <br>
Houghton Library <br>
Harvard University <br>
Cambridge, MA 02138 <br>
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Phone: (617</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">) 998-5259<br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">FAX: (617) 495-1376 <br>
E-mail: <a href="mailto:cawelti@fas.harvard.edu"><span style="color:blue">cawelti@fas.harvard.edu</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://houghton75.org/"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="293" height="61" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D3687A.715E2350" alt="H75_Logo_Email_Chilli_#AF473C"></span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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