Bounding box for handwritten text

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I have a completed handwritten form (form is printed however, it is completed with handwritten information) and I wanted to extract only the handwritten text from the form....

Currently, I have hard-coded the bounding box with openCV and used CNN model to extract the handwritten text. The form is in various template and everytime I will not be able to use the hard-coded bounding box. Is there a way where the bounding box is created automatically based on the handwritten text? Please suggest your options.

The link below is an example of an image that I have... I would basically like to extract the handwritten text from this form. http://doa.alaska.gov/dgs/property/manual/02-622.GIF — Kathiravan Saimoorthy, Sep 26 '19 at 03:49
Kathiravan Saimoorthy did you get the idea about how to do it or did you implement it. — susan097, Aug 20 '20 at 16:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 25 '19 at 16:41

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Here's a paper on text detection using a CNN. Also here's a whole repo. on papers in OCR; a few links talk about hand writing recognition.

answered Sep 25 '19 at 16:41

Suhas C

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Thank you Suhas. I will go through these and let you know for any questions. – Kathiravan Saimoorthy Sep 26 '19 at 03:46

Bounding box for handwritten text

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