Really? I thought we'd pretty much established that handwriting recognition is so inaccurate and slow, even at the best of times, as to be useless until we get some quantum computing or similar going (and even then I don't see how the computer is supposed to interpret handwriting until it's able to interpret other things which would bring us into the "AI era" and thus make handwriting obsolete anyway).
It's a neat trick. I was playing with it back in VB3 with the Windows pen input libraries - I think I wrote a game using it once back in school.
But throughout university, I hand-wrote notes. I was studying Maths and Computing, and though our computing was up-to-scratch, there was - and may still not be - any sensible way to quickly take accurate mathematical notation on a computer. LaTeX was the closest you got and everything now still seems to be a pretty WYSIWYG GUI (or at least, that's what they used to be called) over the top of it. MathML appears to be a poor cousin to LaTeX. The lecturers I know write on boards or project pre-prepared slides and draw over them because notating maths is hard on a computer, but I'm long gone from my academic years so I might be wrong.
There are things I don't get, about information transference. Videos are the slowest, most horrendous way to impart knowledge. A picture tells a thousand words but a video is a long-drawn-out picture with someone talking. Audio is similarly slow and painful for me - by the time you explain it, you could have just shown me an example. There's a reason audiobooks take twice as long to listen to as it would do to just read the book. Handwriting is SLOW and inaccurate and painful on the reader. Even typing I find myself thinking too fast to get it down on the computer in time despite being a touch-typist for years. I can actually type while head is turned sideways having a conversation.
In terms of information transference, handwriting is dead and only survives because you can do it with minimal equipment. If you already have a tablet PC or smartphone, why are you handwriting? If typing on a virtual keyboard is too bad for you, buy a real one. There are some wonderful portable keyboards around.
But handwriting - on a powerful machine - just to get a line of text into a file? So wasteful.
I work in schools and, honestly, it's only because the schools keep pushing it that the children bother to write with a pen at all. I don't think it would be a huge loss to tell the schools to stop doing that and just have the kids type everything. I believe Finland/Sweden are looking at just that. Maybe just a block-capitals with a pen for emergencies? Past that, I think we'd have much brighter kids if they didn't spend half their school lives trying to curl their esses properly and were able to spend more time on using the words effectively and getting their message across. (As a child, I was always told off for my poor handwriting and despite often sitting the last half of the lesson on extension work or bored out of my brain, I spent FOREVER going back and forth on "neatening" my handwriting instead of learning anything).
If a politician were to hand-write a policy now, they'd be a laughing stock.
If the law were written on bits of paper, it would be a mess.
The NHS has spent decades trying to digitise horrible, old, unreadable handwritten medical notes.
Every sign, poster, advert, article, etc. you'll ever read is type-set.
Pretty much the only hand-written thing you'll see is a Post-It and school-work.
I don't get why we do it. I don't get why we need technology to do it.
Like the quill, and stone tablets, and hieroglyphs, handwriting is dead.