IT's Story for Computer Beginners

When you drop a letter into the mailbox, it is collected by the post office. In the past, post office workers had to check the address on each envelope and classify it by region. However, it’s hard to imagine this kind of scene at the post office nowadays because computer software does the work instead of post office workers.

Is it possible for the software to recognize handwriting? The answer is yes because the software can recognize handwriting from a photo image of an envelope. For example, if you write the address on an envelope, the scanner scans the envelope, and then the software processes the scanned image, analyzes your handwriting, and converts it into the most similar characters. Recently, handwriting recognition has become very accurate due to the use of artificial intelligence.

If you write the address clearly on the envelope, the software can recognize it exactly. However, scribbling characters, including using cursive, makes it difficult for the software to recognize them. In this situation, the software might generate a message such as “Recognition error! I don’t know what it is.” It goes without saying that computers cannot recognize characters that humans cannot recognize.