We investigated the detection of handwriting forgery by both human and machine. We obtained experimental handwriting data from subjects writing samples in their natural style and writing forgeries of other subjects’ handwriting. These handwriting samples were digitally scanned and stored in an image database. We investigated the ease of forging handwriting, and found that many subjects can succ...

This study examined the effectiveness of two approaches used in elementary schools to improve children's handwriting. Participants were 72 New York City public school students from the first and second grades. A nonequivalent pretest-posttest group design was used in which students engaged in handwriting activities using two approaches: intensive handwriting practice and visual-perceptual-motor...

Handwriting recognition has been an active and challenging area of research. Handwriting recognition system plays a very important role in today's world. Handwriting recognition is very popular and computationally expensive work. At present time it is very difficult to find correct meaning of handwritten documents. There are many areas where we need to recognize the words, alphabets and di...

Received Jan 11, 2017 Revised Apr 7, 2017 Accepted Jun 11, 2017 Offline cursive handwriting becomes a major challenge due to the huge amount of handwriting varieties such as slant handwriting, space between words, the size and direction of the letter, the style of writing the letter and handwriting with contour similarity on some letters. There are some steps for recursive handwriting recogniti...

The aim of this study was to quantify stability of nondominant handwriting kinematics and legibility in participants with functional loss of the previously dominant hand. Twelve adult volunteers provided two handwriting samples 6 weeks apart. Handwriting tasks (Compose a Sentence, Copy Alphabet, Copy Date, Copy Sentence, and Draw Circles) were performed in cursive writing on standard white, lin...

OBJECTIVE Classroom teachers teach handwriting, but when problems arise, students are referred to occupational therapy for remediation. This study, conducted by occupational therapists, reviews handwriting instruction by classroom teachers in one school district. METHOD Teachers from kindergarten through grade 6 were asked to complete an open-ended questionnaire regarding handwriting instruct...

A 65-year-old male, Parkinson's disease patient, was evaluated for GPR109A expression, niacin index, UPDRS scale, handwriting test, and quality of sleep with and without niacin treatment. The evaluation was repeated 3 months after niacin was stopped. Niacin modulated the abovementioned parameters and showed the overall improvement without side effects.

OFFLINE handwriting recognition is the task of determining what letters or words are present in a digital image of handwritten text. It is of significant benefit to man-machine communication and can assist in the automatic processing of handwritten documents. It is a subtask of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), whose domain can be machine-print or handwriting but is more commonly machine-pri...

Signature sample synthesis is the generation of synthetic signature from a user’s signature samples. It is a special case of handwriting sample synthesis which generates novel handwriting in a particular person’s handwriting style. A handwriting or signature synthesis system has two basic modules: the modeling module and the synthesis module. In the modeling module, the system collects handwrit...