Hackaday

Going Digital: Teaching A TI-84 Handwriting Recognition

You wouldn’t typically associate graphing calculators with artificial intelligence, but hacker [KermMartian] recently made it happen. The innovative project involved running a neural network directly ...
Reuters

CoreTechX Unveils Its OCR System, Achieving State-of-the-Art Accuracy in Handwritten Arabic Recognition

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, January 21, 2026 (EZ Newswire) -- The leader in specialized Arabic document intelligence, CoreTechX, opens new tab, has announced the launch of its proprietary OCR system. Until ...
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In 1989, Yann LeCun helped show that neural networks could read handwritten ZIP codes, laying groundwork for systems that later read bank checks

Back in 1989, computer scientist Yann LeCun and colleagues decided to focus on one of the most common yet infuriating issues of the time: the automated reading of messy, handwritten zip codes on mail ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s Copilot AI now understands your terrible handwriting

OneNote can read and analyze your handwritten notes and use AI to improve them. OneNote can read and analyze your handwritten notes and use AI to improve them. is a senior correspondent and author of ...