I have failed to express myself clearly and for that I apologize.
What I was trying to convey is that no matter what tooling is employed for this specific problem, a human will have to review the result to ensure accuracy. Since the problem is defined as reading cursive handwriting, people who can do so intrinsically obviate the need for tooling.
Whether or not automation can produce reasonable results is moot when the requirement is to have as accurate as possible a one-time transcription of cursive handwriting documents.
What I was trying to convey is that no matter what tooling is employed for this specific problem, a human will have to review the result to ensure accuracy. Since the problem is defined as reading cursive handwriting, people who can do so intrinsically obviate the need for tooling.
Whether or not automation can produce reasonable results is moot when the requirement is to have as accurate as possible a one-time transcription of cursive handwriting documents.