On one level, of course, Google Handwrite is designed around the same basic technology that tablets and other hand-helds have been using for a while (remember those first-generation Palm Pilots?). There’s also a big difference between writing with a pen and scribbling with a fingertip. What distinguishes Google Handwrite from its predecessors, though, is massification. Unlike an individual device that learns the idiosyncrasies of its owner’s handwriting, Google Handwrite has the capability to learn the idiosyncrasies of everyone’s handwriting, and thus the potential to use that crowd-sourced knowledge to translate previously written documents scanned by users.
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