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Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret handwritten input.

Handwriting recognition is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input, from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other devices.

Handwriting recognition principally entails optical character recognition.

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Is there any way to find handwritten text from an image with opencv?

Input Image from which I tried extract character output image I want to crop all character from image to folder and give them name line by line but character not cropped well and also I can't name them correctly. In output image my code recognize…
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How to do digit segmentation for hand-written account numbers & sort codes in OPENCV?

Is there a simple way that I can do digit segmentation from files like in the screenshot below? I want to use OpenCV to do it as it's the library I'm using to do the rest of processing but other suggestions are welcomed. Paper form: Text box:
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Force Google Vision API to detect dates / numbers

I'm trying to detect handwritten dates using the Google Vision API. Do you know if it is possible to force it to detect dates (DD/MM/YYYY), or at least numbers only to increase reliablity? The function I use, takes an Image as np.array as input: def…
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Finding a new Handwritten dataset for commercial usage

For handwriting recognition, the most common dataset is IAM but its used only for research purpose. Can anyone please suggest the handwritten word data set other than IAM for commercial usage.
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OCR software or homemade CNN for document processing?

I have a dilemma. If you have only one type of invoice/document, and you have a specific field that you want to process from that invoice and use somewhere else (that filed happens to be a handwritten digit, sometimes written with dashes or…
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Increasing Label Error Rate (Edit Distance) and Fluctuating Loss?

I am training a handwriting recognition model of this architecture: { "network": [ { "layer_type": "l2_normalize" }, { "layer_type": "conv2d", "num_filters": 16, "kernel_size": 5, "stride": 1, "padding": "same" }, { "layer_type":…
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Good feature extraction for handwritten characters using OpenCV python?

I'm currently using the cv2.goodFeaturesToTrack() method. However, the corners it returns are somewhat vague and doesn't really do what i wanted wherein it would put some dots on the outline of the character. Here is an attached image of how it…
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Handwriting Recognition of Floats using Convolutional Neural Network

I'm looking to recognise a set of handwritten numbers, starting from 0 and increasing by 0.5 for every number i.e. 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 ... 10. Tried searching online but to no avail; MNIST does not seem fully useful either given it only…
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Detect space between text (OpenCV, Python)

I have the following code (which is in fact just 1 part of 4 needed to run all the project I am working on..): #python classify.py --model models/svm.cpickle --image images/image.png from __future__ import print_function from sklearn.externals…
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which is the right way to detect the existence of handwritten signature in documents?

I'm new to machine learning .I'm trying to find a way to detect the existence of handwritten signature in scanned documents. After doing a lot of research ,I found out ,that is essential to use SVM classifiers. So,when there's machine learning…
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Can we do handwriting detection and reading without the use of neural networks?

I'm trying to extract text from images where's there's handwriting. If it's not handwriting ,I get good result using tesseract. However,I know every handwriting has its own characteristics ,so using a trained model for limited number of hand…
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How to Read Text From Bounding Box using Java With OpenCV

I am working on Handwritten Form Recognition System, till now i have reached to this step where,i have been able to detect text using java with openCV but now i want to read the text from each of these bounding boxes Click to open image I have…
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CNTK handwriting recognition

Has anyone ever programmed using CNTK for reading hand-filled documents? I tried OCRs and they dont do handwriting recognition at all (next to nothing). Thinking of using CNTK for the same. I searched and found that not many have tried such a thing.…
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Adjusting hyperparameters of neural network used for (offline) handwriting recognition

I'm currently using a java library to do some naive experimentation with offline handwriting recognition. I give my program an image of a pre-written English sentence and segment it into individual characters, which I then feed to a very naively…
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Handwriting gesture recognition for multiple characters android

I have implemented handwriting gestures for android character recognition for a single character as shown here. But i want to read multiple characters at a single time, .i.e Android. I am able to read a single character by the following…
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