Questions tagged [handwriting-recognition]

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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Storing and verifying user signature

I will be trying to recognize user signature, sever-side, written with a digital pen like this one. I have absolutely no experience working with a digital pad like this and the pads aren't cheap to just "try buying and see". What would be a good…
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Handwriting recognition from image to string

I'm using Encog and I ran the ocr sample. It works fine. However, I want to pass an image file (png, jpg,...) as a parameter. This image contains the text to to be recognized. Then, the system should return a string with the "same" text. Has someone…
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How can I train an OCR neural network?

For my APCS final project, I'm making an application that: allows a user to draw digits on a drawing panel; scales/translates each stroke (represented by a list of x-y coordinates) to 100x100; produces an image from the scaled stroke; produces a…
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Handwritten Word Segmentation using neural network

So what I am trying to do is to segment cursive handwritten English words into individual characters. I have applied a simple heuristic approach with artificial intelligence to do a basic over-segmentation of the words something like this: I am…
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Python OpenCV handwriting recognition with SVM, changing training and testing amounts

http://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.org/en/latest/py_tutorials/py_ml/py_svm/py_svm_opencv/py_svm_opencv.html In this example OpenCV gives, the training set is of 250 and testing amount is also the same. However when the testing and training…
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GUI interface for online handwriting recognition in MATLAB

I need to create a GUI interface from which I can get x and y coordinate and pen-up/pen-down stroke value of points as input from the user. The user uses mouse to draw the text or non-text characters. How can I create such a GUI interface using…
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Crop letter out of picture with OpenCv

I'm currently writing an OCR in C++. I'm using a neural network and it works pretty well with simple letters like this. But now I would like to go further and extract letters out of an image, like this one. I'm using OpenCV 3 and I have no clue of…
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character recognition with gesture detector

I want to recognize alphanumeric characters and numbers with a gesture detector. I browsed the web for existing examples or libraries but I haven't found much suitable results. Does anyone knows some libraries or existing examples for character…
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wacom and myscript set handwritng recognition function

im not sure if its the right place to put my question, but i think maybe get an answer here. the last few days thinking about a way to make μυ work easier. What I want is to write by hand and convert into text on the computer. namely when I am on a…
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WritePad Handwriting Recognition SDK for WP8

I have a problem with WritePad Handwriting Recognition SDK for WP8 I installed the sdk for windows WritePadSDK_Windows_42, and I add the library for pthread, and it works with Win8 but not WP8 There is no error, only this line if…
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How to get user freehand input in matlab?

I am trying to write a handwriting recognization software, and need user input. I can successfully use imfreehand (with parameter, closed = 0) function to let the user write on top of a blank plot axis. However, I have two issues with that: I…
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Hand-written custom shapes recognition

I am trying to implement a small recognition program, which should take an image with hand-written shapes as an input (shape objects can be nested), and tell me which shapes it consists of, their type, size and at least coordinates of one point in a…
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Get Features Extraction for offline character recognition using HMM

I'm implementing an character recognition system with Hidden Markov Model(HMM). I have used skeleton to extract features of image. And I thought to use HMM for training images. My question is how I can give those features to HMM? I got to know that…
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Text extraction and segmentation open CV

I've never used OpenCV before, but I'm trying to write my neural network system to recognize text and I need some tool for text extraction/ segmentation. How can I use java OpenCV to preprocess and segmentate an image containing text.I don't need…
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android handwriting to text

I need to use handwriting recognition for a android app which will be used as product. Handwriting option should be as “alternative keyboard” MyScript Stylus Mobile does provide any sdk for development? which is best way to implement? Thanks.
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