The Jefferson County Attorney’s office handled a humdrum employment case that had an unusual piece of evidence: a 200-page document handwritten in loops and curls recognizable as some kind of shorthand. So they turned to Ms. Sanders’s “Shorthand Translation Services,” an enterprise she has just gotten up and running on the Web. Her service is to try making sense, in English, of the scribblings in shorthand that people send her.

Shorthand has been around since ancient Greece. As generations of shorthand writers fade away, only a few of the shorthand-fluent remain to untangle their squiggles. Before accepting the job Ms. Sanders makes sure she she candecrypt at least 75% of the content.

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