Comment by Qwertious

This is great news, it's been needed for ages - handwriting is more than just funky OCR, it's OCR as applied to vector lines with a defined stroke order. So for instance, a lowercase e and c might render to the exact same pixels due to the 'loop' of the e overlapping itself, but if we know the stroke started in the middle of the line and then retreads itself, we can know for sure we're looking at an 'e'. That's simply not possible in e.g. Tesseract.