Essays
Reading and Transcribing Handwritten Menus in China
OCR struggles with messy handwritten Chinese menus. Here is why reading handwriting is its own skill and how learning to write builds it.
Lawrence Arya··5 min
Playbooks
Can't Read Handwritten Chinese Menus? Learn to Write
Struggling to read a scrawled handwritten menu is normal, even for fluent readers. The durable fix is counterintuitive: learning to write characters makes you far better at reading handwriting.
Lawrence Arya··5 min