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Handwriting recognition
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2012–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Handwriting recognition, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Waiting for handwritten scribbles to convert to text is painfully slow2026-06-09
- At 90% accuracy, users must correct about 10 words per paragraph2018-06-12
- Can't correct or cancel mistaken gestures, which is frustrating2014-02-19
- Can't find a way to give feedback or suggest a better translation2012-02-02