But on a technical level, that is even more difficult than handwriting recognition.

As practiced, handwriting recognition became the reason not to buy one.

"The level of satisfaction with our product for handwriting recognition is all over the board."

Question: You have said we may never reach the stage where handwriting recognition is acceptable.

Handwriting recognition would be cool too, but that's irrelevant to this.

Effective and reliable handwriting recognition will necessarily form an important part of this new technology.

Not all the information present within dictionary definitions is of use for handwriting recognition.

In comparison to speech, automatic handwriting recognition has received little attention.

Handwriting recognition is subject to all the above problems plus further ones due to its increased variability.

There is more to even the original Messagepad, however, than handwriting recognition.