Google is showing off an AI tool for reading handwritten text by digitally rewriting it

Google Research is showing off a new way to use AI to read handwriting, which could revolutionize the way machines convert what you put on paper into digital letters. The InkSight system transforms photos of handwritten words into digital text using AI without the need for intermediary devices.

The idea is to replace the sometimes fallible optical character recognition (OCR) with AI that can mimic how humans actually learn to read, specifically by rewriting existing text to learn what entire words look like and mean. For this, the researchers had to guide the AI ​​in recognizing and imitating human handwriting.