Can you read this handwriting?

Transcribing handwritten information from digital images

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Collection Highlights Converting an image with handwriting to text is a challenge. In the example above, the optical character recognition process reads the handwriting (1) and produces meaningless text (2). Staff from the National Agricultural Library and the Agricultural Research Service have been transcribing these handwritten documents to produce legible, searchable text (3). See the results of our work on the Frederick Coville blueberry records on the Biodiversity Heritage Library site. Select "Show Text" in the upper right corner to view the transcribed text.

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