Go to:    Digital penmanship Until computers handle voice recognition well enough to permit people to simply speak to machines, proponents of tablet computers believe handwriting is the ticket. Forget the keyboard. But how to sharpen up skewed lines and slopping penmanship so a finished document saved on a computer has smooth diagrams and clearly readable text? The Pen & Internet division of Parascript, whose technology is used by the U.S. Postal Service to read handwritten envelopes, believes it has just the thing. Called Advanced Note Recognition, the technology separates handwritten text from drawings and smoothes out rough edges. The company expects a finished product in early 2003.