The Mengtian Chinese character recognition system that is now on the market very much fits Hsu's earlier vision, and Hsu has come to be regarded as the father of optical character recognition technology in Taiwan.
現在的蒙恬手寫板，就是衍伸自當年許文星的構想雛形，許文星也因此被稱為台灣「OCR 之父」。