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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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Handwriting recognition API's for android applications

Is there any good Handwriting recognition API to help develop application on Android Platform? Google has released (around July 2012 http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/handwritinginput/index.html) a feature to use handwriting for…
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how to convert/match a handwritten list of names? (HWR)

I would like to see if I can scan a sign-in sheet for a class. The good news is I know 90% of the names that might be written. My idea was to use tessaract to parse an image of names, and then use the Levenshtein algorithm to compare each line with…
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opencv - cropping handwritten lines (line segmentation)

I'm trying to build a handwriting recognition system using python and opencv. The recognition of the characters is not the problem but the segmentation. I have successfully : segmented a word into single characters segmented a single sentence into…
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Handwritten text recognition php

I am thinking of creating a certain web system. It involves a lot of different (random) people uploading scanned documents of stuff they wrote. Is there any PHP open source way converting these handwritten texts to machine text? I found this…
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Digit Recognition on CNN

I am testing printed digits (0-9) on a Convolutional Neural Network. It is giving 99+ % accuracy on the MNIST Dataset, but when I tried it using fonts installed on computer (Ariel, Calibri, Cambria, Cambria math, Times New Roman) and trained the…
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Improve real-life results of neural network trained with mnist dataset

I've built a neural network with keras using the mnist dataset and now I'm trying to use it on photos of actual handwritten digits. Of course I don't expect the results to be perfect but the results I currently get have a lot of room for…
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Recognition of handwritten circles, diamonds and rectangles

I looking for some advices about recognition of three handwritten shapes - circles, diamonds and rectangles. I tried diffrent aproaches but they failed so maybe you could point me in another, better direction. What I tried: 1) Simple algorithm based…
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How can HMMs be used for handwriting recognition?

The problem is a bit different than traditional handwriting recognition. I have a dataset that are thousands of the following. For one drawn character, I have several sequential (x, y) coordinates where the pen was pressed down. So, this is a…
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How to detect handwriting using Google Cloud Vision API

TL;DR: how can I detect the presence of handwriting in an image? I'm using Google's Python Vision API to scan for text in images, with generally good results. Most of the time the images contain printed text, but sometimes there is handwriting. As…
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Chinese handwriting recognition

I'm looking for handwriting recognition solution. I've found one here, which is a flash application. What's the principle of how it works? Does it make any queries to db to find the character?
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Android handwriting recognition

I need to analyse android handwriting recognition SDK's. Can anybody tell me what SDK's are available on the market. I've found MyScript from VisionObjects, but I cant find any download link from the SDK, because I need to test to see the accuracy.
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Handwriting recognition

I know there's a handwriting recognition in wpf, but I'm not sure it supports images. What I want to do is give the program an image or screen shot of a handwriting or printing and it would recognize it and display on screen. Is it possible?
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Does iOS 11 have an API for handwriting recognition and text search?

Apple has added searchable handwriting to the Notes app in iOS 11 (iOS 11 Preview link). This allows you to write on the iPad Pro screen with the Pencil, and later find the text, as you would if you had typed it. Is there an API so that developers…
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AI Neural Network Wrong Handwritten Digit Prediction due to inverted color. Octave/Matlab?

my program in Octave uses Neural Networks to recognize handwritten digits. The problem is that it will not recognize the digit correctly if the color is changed. But if color is inverted, it predicts incorrectly. For example: The Images above…
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Trained data file of IAM Handwriting Database for Tesseract

Can someone please give me the trained data file of IAM handwriting database for use with tesseract.I need the .traineddata file please.
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