IBM's ThinkWrite handwriting recognition product recognizes discrete handwriting, with occasional run-on. Recognition of cursive writing is harder than discrete writing because it is very difficult to work out where one letter ends and the next begins. Unconstrained Unconstrained means that no restriction is placed on the style of handwriting that the recognizer will accept. In particular we use unonstrained to refer to a recognizer that will recognize cursive and discrete handwriting. The lines on the screen to mark the path of an electronic pen.
Words written in ink are on-line handwriting and can be recognized and transcribed into text.
This is the technique used by the cursive recognition engine. Statistics of training samples are used by the model to recognize unseen words.