I have a requirement to parse a handwritten document and be able to upload the data to database, I am looking for some open source libraries that can recognize handwriting and can and give me the results back.
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3I'd like to see such a library in _any_ language. – Oded Jan 31 '12 at 21:20
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You want an [OCR](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) library. That's been asked [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1085/free-ocr-library). – dario_ramos Jan 31 '12 at 21:24
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I am thinking of having individual boxes for each letter and fixed positions for each section on a document, i tried designing such form and parsed it with tesseract ocr but it only recognizes machine typed characters, if i can find a way to detect characters inside each box that will do it. – Sandeep Jan 31 '12 at 21:27
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3@dario_ramos - OCR libraries work well with typed/printed text (and even then can be hit and miss). Handwriting is _much_ more complex. – Oded Jan 31 '12 at 21:30
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Why don't you look at the InkAnalyzer by Microsoft. The only problem is The conversion of your handwriting to Strokes
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I am looking for a way to detect handwriting from a scanned document which i don't think inkanalyzer can achieve. – Sandeep Jan 31 '12 at 21:35
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It can if you can convert the document to strokes. If its a simple document it wont be too hard for you to do. – MyKuLLSKI Jan 31 '12 at 21:36
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@Sandeep - Is this of any interest? http://lipitk.sourceforge.net/ – Mike Christensen Jan 31 '12 at 21:41
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@MyKuLLSKI - Honestly i am not sure how to do that, can you please give me some pointers? – Sandeep Jan 31 '12 at 21:41
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@Sandeep - With alot of time and money. All you have to figure out is how to make a "Stroke" like photoshop does. If photoshop can do it anyone can – MyKuLLSKI Jan 31 '12 at 21:57
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1@MyKuLLSKI - Some of the stuff Photoshop can do borders on black magic. – Mike Christensen Jan 31 '12 at 21:58
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@MikeChristensen is lipitool kit accurate for handwriting recognition ? And ideas? – Rat-a-tat-a-tat Ratatouille Mar 18 '14 at 11:05
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I came across Cell Writer, when reading the wikipedia article on HWR. Looks like you have to train it to a specific writing, but maybe it'd help you.
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