A Proposal for Input of Hand-Drawn Information to a Digital System

Much progress has been made in speeding up communications between input-output digital equipment and the central processing unit. Faster and faster card readers, printers and tape drives have been developed to match the vastly increased internal processing speeds of modern digital computers. In contrast, direct man-machine communication still lags far behind machine-machine data exchange. Much work is being done to ease this communications bottleneck in such areas as character recognition and voice recognition, which are but two of the more well-known examples.