Abstract
For the purpose of electronic processing of medical records, we have developed a pen-based interface to realize the flexibility of conventional hand-written patient records in a natural form. This pen-based interface has effective functions not only to support the data entry but also to survey the input data. In fact, however, we had a serious problem because intact hand-written characters input by a pen device are too hard to be utilized for secondary data use. In this paper, we have discovered the possibility of using secondary data from our pen-based interface by using advanced functions of a box-free character recognition and a hand-written query search. With a box-free character recognition function, we can easily transfer hand-written characters into text data whenever the need arises. Moreover, after inputting a series of hand-written data, the text data, which can be used on a secondary level, is also made possible by the process of conversion in bulk. Additionally, we can find the targeting characters in the whole of the hand-written characters with the function of the hand-written query search, even if it does not make a specific database structure.
