In reply to Chris Aldrich.

For OCR and other purposes, there are far better ways than cursive to write by hand: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/04/opinion/20090908_opart.html?_r=0, http://HandwritingSuccess.com, https://sites.google.com/view/briem/handwriting?authuser=0, http://BFHhandwriting.com, and http://italic-handwriting.org