I.R.I.S. Readiris Pro 12 for Windows User Guide - Manual (Page 96)

Chapter 13 – Recognizing handprinted text
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Recognized symbols
Handprinting recognition is limited to the Latin alphabet and
supports numerals (0-9), uppercase letters (A-Z) and the
punctuation symbols comma, period, plus sign and hyphen.
Accents, umlauts and other special characters are not supported.
Notes
 Readiris supports handprinting, not handwriting.
For more information, see the section Handprinting rules.
 Uppercase characters are replaced by lowercase characters after
recognition, unless they occur at the beginning of a sentence.
 The document characteristics language, font type and character
pitch do not apply to handprinting.
 Interactive learning does not apply either. The ICR technology is
based on more than one million writing samples.
H ANDPRINTING RULES
Several rules must be taken into account in order for Readiris to
recognize handprinting:
 Write regular, well-spaced characters.
Note how the characters A, G and Q are written.