UMass Amherst reports that Researchers create tool to automatically search handwritten historical documents” href=”http://www.umass.edu/umhome/news/articles/7683.php”>Researchers create tool to automatically search handwritten historical documents. Working with 1,000 scanned pages of George Washington’s manuscripts, a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have developed a manuscript retrieval system that can find words like “regiment” in the handwritten manuscripts. There is a demo at Handwritten Manuscript Retrieval.
This is thanks to Matt Patey.