SearchInk -- Unlocking the handwritten past, and present, with machine learning

To do so would take more lifetimes than any of us will be granted. Type-written documents can be OCR'd, but handwriting remains a fiendishly difficult problem. Imagine not only being able to unlock that vast historical knowledge but also interrogating handwritten business and legal notes, literally today. This wealth of information is just waiting for the right technology to come along. That's exactly what an innovative startup out of Berlin plans to do.