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

MikeN
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  • Did you see this question? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1708779/python-ocr-library-or-handwritten-character-recognition-engine – Justin Peel May 22 '10 at 15:17

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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 :-(

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