<s>
Intelligent	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
ICR	O
)	O
is	O
used	O
to	O
extract	O
handwritten	O
text	O
from	O
image	O
images	O
using	O
ICR	O
,	O
also	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
intelligent	O
OCR	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
ICR	O
software	O
has	O
a	O
self-learning	O
system	O
referred	O
to	O
as	O
a	O
neural	B-Architecture
network	I-Architecture
,	O
which	O
automatically	O
updates	O
the	O
recognition	O
database	O
for	O
new	O
handwriting	O
patterns	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
extends	O
the	O
usefulness	O
of	O
scanning	O
devices	O
for	O
the	O
purpose	O
of	O
document	B-Algorithm
processing	I-Algorithm
,	O
from	O
printed	O
character	B-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
a	O
function	O
of	O
OCR	O
)	O
to	O
hand-written	O
matter	O
recognition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Optical	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
OCR	O
)	O
is	O
commonly	O
considered	O
to	O
apply	O
to	O
any	O
recognition	O
technique	O
that	O
reads	O
machine	O
printed	O
text.vAn	O
example	O
of	O
a	O
traditional	O
OCR	O
use	O
case	O
would	O
be	O
to	O
translate	O
the	O
characters	O
from	O
an	O
image	O
of	O
a	O
printed	O
document	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
a	O
book	O
page	O
,	O
newspaper	O
clipping	O
,	O
or	O
legal	O
contract	O
,	O
into	O
a	O
separate	O
file	O
that	O
could	O
be	O
searched	O
and	O
updated	O
with	O
a	O
word	O
processor	O
or	O
document	O
viewer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intelligent	B-Application
character	I-Application
recognition	I-Application
(	O
ICR	O
)	O
makes	O
use	O
of	O
continuously	O
improving	O
algorithms	O
to	O
collect	O
more	O
information	O
about	O
the	O
variances	O
in	O
hand-printed	O
characters	O
and	O
more	O
precisely	O
identify	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
more	O
recent	O
method	O
called	O
intelligent	B-General_Concept
word	I-General_Concept
recognition	I-General_Concept
(	O
IWR	O
)	O
focuses	O
on	O
reading	O
a	O
word	O
in	O
context	O
rather	O
than	O
recognizing	O
individual	O
characters	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Intelligent	B-General_Concept
word	I-General_Concept
recognition	I-General_Concept
(	O
IWR	O
)	O
can	O
recognize	O
and	O
extract	O
not	O
only	O
printed-handwritten	O
information	O
,	O
cursive	O
handwriting	O
as	O
well	O
.	O
</s>
