AI developer Mistral AI has announced the release of Mistral OCR 3, an AI model that can recognize scanned documents and handwritten characters and convert them into text. Mistral OCR 3 boasts ...

Dear Heloise: I read with great interest the letter from Sharon, in Middletown, Ohio. I, too, mourn the loss of cursive writing and know many young people who are able to text on their phones with ...

Florida lawmakers are putting pen to paper with a new push to make sure every elementary student can actually read Grandma’s handwriting, reviving a cursive requirement that’s technically already on ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

For 30 minutes each day, Mikayla Blalock’s fourth grade students at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary School in Monroe County focus on what some consider a lost art in the digital age: cursive writing.

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive. Then, she had ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook DeepSeek has unveiled DeepSeek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression, an open-source model developed ...

OCR Studio has developed an identity document scanner that works within a web browser and can reliably read Arabic IDs, the first such capability on the market, according to a company announcement.

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

Cursive is back in fashion for a number of Baltimore County schools. Twenty-four Baltimore County elementary schools will kick off a new pilot cursive writing program beginning on Monday, Nov. 3, the ...

After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...