Recognizing characters/handwritten characters

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I,ve been looking out for character/handwriting recognition API or web services that aptly serves the purpose of recognizing handwritten data..basically from a drawn objects on a UIView subtypes.For this query ,i ve explored tesseract(which seems to need a proper input preferrably typed text) to give a matched output.Ideally i would want to have a service like visionobjects.Most of them are paid API's including the one pasted above.

Are there any API /webservices matching the scenario like visionobjects

I have searched for a library that does that for weeks and found nothing. Actually even vision objects is not a solution as they do online recognition (as the text is being written) and not offline. — Moxy, Nov 28 '12 at 09:07
@Moxy:yeah..i ve been doing the same and ended up on the wrong side of the result.I m not using vision objects,but would like some thing similar to that in context of iOS.. — AppleDelegate, Nov 28 '12 at 09:13
Check http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ and https://github.com/nolanbrown/Tesseract-iPhone-Demo — iDev, Nov 28 '12 at 09:22
@ACB : ive checked tesseract but its good where the input provided to it is kind of bold typed text..basically it recognizes computer typed characters else it gives weird outputs(Non human readable) 6 out of 10 times — AppleDelegate, Nov 28 '12 at 09:32
check [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8786161/194544), hope it can help you.. — beryllium, Nov 28 '12 at 18:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 22 '16 at 16:55

If you are looking for a FREE API that recognizes hand writing for iOS in objective-c, I used this completed project :

https://github.com/eelretep/HandwritingTextField

Basically just download the project. Click on handwriting view, and write in the grey square, it should recognize your handwriting. The bad side is that it requires internet connection. If you have anything that does not require internet connection, please share.

Recognizing characters/handwritten characters

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