Sketch-interpreting software

(PhysOrg.com) -- Science writers know as well as anyone how much information a diagram can contain. We often labor to express in words what a researcher was able to convey in a single image. But while a drawing can be rich in information, it's information that's usually inaccessible to computers. If you draw a diagram on the screen of a tablet computer, like the new Apple iPad, the computer can of course store the drawing as an image. But it can't tell what the image means.

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