Lol, the late 1990s US elementary classes were probably the last groups that were taught how to read and write cursive handwritings.
You’ll probably have to take a college course to learn it now.
So if I want to keep something secret from Gen Z just write it in cursive… got it.
I remember learning cursive in the 2000s in elementary school
I’m pretty good at it
But with electronic signatures becoming the norm along with initials in print, I could see how districts think it’s a waste of resources
I am confused. To work for the National Archives don’t you need some specific qualifications? These writings are not new. That is what makes them part of the National Archives, right???
What is the National Archives good for if the National Archives employees can’t read National Archives?
Did you not read the article?
Every year, the National Archives digitizes tens of millions of records. The agency uses artificial intelligence and a technology known as optical character recognition to extract text from historical documents. But these methods don’t always work, and they aren’t always accurate…
Of course i did Dustin but it seems elementary that…the National Archives personal would know this.
Tens of millions of records… I would be shocked if they didn’t need assistance with that. It isn’t a problem of knowledge at the national archives, it is a problem of capacity. Then looking to the public, that’s where it is a problem of knowledge.
Library of Congress has a similar thing running for years. Sometimes its decent transcription ones like WW2 Rumor mills or Branch Rickey’s writings to the MLB about integration. Other times like now its things like 18th century Spanish legal docs.
Not surprising especially as we try to digitize thousands of years of documents created before computers.
Heck I can’t read my own cursive handwriting sometimes. And I pride myself in my penmanship. I have quite a collection of fountain pens, and I still write actual letters and Christmas cards.
The following is a declaration of James Lambert, a soldier of the Revolutionary war in North America…
Should be able to train models to do this fairly accurately by now. Just need labeled samples, which I’m sure there are plenty of at this point