What is handwritten OCR?

Handwritten recognition is substantially harder than printed recognition and correspondingly less accurate, because letterforms vary between writers and within a single writer's page. It matters disproportionately in public-sector and healthcare estates, where decades of forms, annotations, marginalia and signed records exist only as images of handwriting. Until recognized, that content is invisible to search, unavailable to any retrieval system and impossible to remediate for accessibility — it is stored, and nothing more. Centralpoint's ingestion extracts text and converts content into structured form, which brings handwritten material into the governed estate where it can be classified, indexed and made reachable. Accuracy on handwriting is imperfect and should be treated as such: the value is in making previously dark content searchable and reviewable, with the recognized text as an aid rather than as an authoritative transcription.