>Thanks for the link, I also found another one which sounds promising:
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>http://www.charactell.com/iRead.html

The price is good - but again - doesn't work with connected characters.

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>>I got to thinking about this more last night. There HAS to be a way to do it. All of these new tablet pc's - all those have a stylus pen thingy and read handwriting, right? Anyway I found a couple of other apps here.. http://www.smartlinkcorp.com/w95/ocr/index.shtml and I'm sure there are others - but thing is these are just packaged applications - and it sounds like you're looking for an activex. I suppose you could contact the makers of the apps and see if they will provide an activex, api or something...
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>>>Thanks for the link Victor. That's the general impression I've got from my research. In this case, the forms are being collected at various ports of entry into a country and there can be no "training" of the OCR software to be able to read someone's handwriting, so it doesn't look like this will work either.
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>>>Having said that, there must besome way of achieving this as one of the competitiors is offering it.
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>>>More research to do...
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>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>My client wants to be able to scan in some forms that have been hand filled in and let the data be automatically put into the appropriate fields in a database. Has anyone any experience of this, or any idea how feasible it is?
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>>>>>Currently a data entry clerk can put in 1500 of these forms a day so we won't be wanting to move to a slower less accurate solution.
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>>>>>Thanks.
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>>>>I've only heard of one such product - and it doesn't work if the letters are connected. As matter of fact - I haven't seen too much OCR's of anykind that I'm all that impressed with.
>>>>Anyway if you wanna give this one a try its here:
>>>>http://www.aptrio.com/Business/Applications/softwriting-8220.html