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MikeN
MikeN

Reputation: 46317

Python handwriting recognition software?

Is there a Python handwriting recognition library? What are the inputs to hand writing recognition packages, .jpg images? .pdf images?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3379

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richj
richj

Reputation: 7529

Zinnia is a C/C++ library with SWIG generated wrappers for Perl/Python/Ruby. It has a BSD license and converts user pen strokes provided as coordinates into character best matches. It also has a training module.

It looks like it performs single character recognition, so you might need to build something on top of it to improve the results.

PenCommander from PhatWare is a commercial, non-Python, Windows-only SDK. If you can live with all of those limitations, PhatWare products are the best handwriting recognition products that I've found so far, although I haven't been looking that hard since the Microsoft's digital ink for the Tablet PC came out. I'm still saving for the Tablet PC though :-(

Upvotes: 2

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