went ahead and hooked up the neural network OCR to run on my Tablet PC. it had been using images of characters rendered with GDI+ for training and test cases. now it is using my own handwriting for both. have to enter some letters and numbers, then train the neural net. then i can write on the lower textArea and have the neural net do the recognition (instead of the Tablet Recognizer). results aren't great, but it does have minimal success (pictured below)