Algorithm for Hand writing recognition

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Is there any specific algorithm for handwriting recognition? The algorithm should recognize the hand written letter.

Any one could help would be greatly appreciated in advance.

Thank you

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '09 at 12:33

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You can use a genetic algorithm:

http://www.foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-02/IBS-02-p03.pdf

You can use Greedy Point Match:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/msw/GreedyPointMatchWriteup.pdf

I would suggest reading this paper:

On-Line and Off-Line Handwriting Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

answered Jul 30 '09 at 12:33

karim79

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Boosting was another easy, adaptive method for recognizing handwriting. check out adaboost, and its surrounding papers. – nlucaroni Jul 30 '09 at 13:56

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 30 '09 at 12:41

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OCR might be a good starting point.

answered Jul 30 '09 at 12:41

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 19 '13 at 18:43

There's the dollar family of recognizers which you can use to recognize single or multistroke gestures (and potentially map that to your alphabet) The lastest member of this family is the $P Recognizer. Here's a starting point: http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/pdollar.html

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 31 '09 at 05:34

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Google has released an open source OCR engines Tesseract OCR, and It has an Python binding.
Hope this helps.

answered Jul 31 '09 at 05:34

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Doesn't do cursive / handwriting that I'm aware of ? – David Ford Nov 07 '16 at 08:25

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Aug 25 '19 at 16:54

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This one seems to win all the major competitions lately: https://github.com/alexgraves/RNNLIB/wiki

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answered Aug 17 '09 at 06:59

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Unfortunately that repository is currently empty. – Tomasz Lenarcik Oct 21 '16 at 15:34

Algorithm for Hand writing recognition

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