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During the past 10 years, there has been considerable interest in the automatic recognition of handwritten and machine-printed symbols. Most of these studies have involved computer recognition of an already completed symbol; a few have involved special electronics for the analysis and recognition of characters or words as they are being written.
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Gabriel F. Groner (1966) studied this question.