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I am looking to use handwriting recognition and OCR in a piece of software I have made. I was wondering if anyone knows of any (up to date) packages that do OCR or handwriting recognition.

I am looking more for free packages, but I would also be interested in comercial ones.

I have looked at some other articles like this one from '09 but I could not find any that seemed reasonable.

Would I be better off writing in C# instead, and make use of the built in Windows 7 handwriting analyzer?

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  • There is a Java port of opencv. I don't know if there is already some ready-to-use handwriting recognition, but I guess that would be a good starting point for your search. – brimborium Aug 08 '12 at 20:20
  • See this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1813881/java-ocr-implementation – martijno Aug 08 '12 at 20:57

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Try the Tesseract OCR engine from google.This is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available.

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