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Is there an handwriting recognition library for IOS?

Christophe Debove
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    possible duplicate of [Are there any handwriting recognition libraries available for the iPhone?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3607827/are-there-any-handwriting-recognition-libraries-available-for-the-iphone) – Brad Larson Nov 16 '10 at 18:25

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Shameless plug

MyScript, the company I work for licenses closed-source handwriting recognition technology for desktops (windows, linux, osx), tablets(ios, android) as well as automotive (Audi navigation system).

Our developer portal is regularly updated with new content.

You can try our technology on our web demonstration portal (beware some version of the Evernote clipper severely break HTML canvas interaction).

We also have various applications available on iTunes for iOS devices and Google Play for Android devices.

Hope that helps.

Gregory Pakosz
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came across an interesting link: http://iphone.olipion.com/cross-compilation/tesseract-ocr

i would update on my progress

Tomer Even
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  • Honestly handwriting recognition is not the same as ocr although they're using similar technology. The tesseract-ocr used for the handwriting recognition is not acceptable because it's too slow. – Bagusflyer Sep 06 '13 at 10:23
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None provided by Apple at all and none by third parties that I can find in a Google search.

Joshua Nozzi
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    I'm sorry but this answer is wrong :) Shameless plug: Vision Objects provides handwriting recognition technology for desktops (windows, linux, osx), tablets (ios, android) as well as automotive. – Gregory Pakosz Aug 30 '11 at 11:48
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    Well, technically it's exactly right: Apple provides no such API and I couldn't, in fact, find anything relevant on Google. You should invest some time in SEO. ;-) – Joshua Nozzi Aug 30 '11 at 13:20
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    You're so right about SEO :( Hence my answer and comment :/ And about Apple APIs indeed they don't want to provide an input method framework mainly because they don't want foreign code to mess with application code – Gregory Pakosz Aug 31 '11 at 11:14
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could port this to iOS...supposed to work on MacOSX

http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

Nick Hingston
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  • oops, I didnt see duplicate link! gives a bit of help with the cross compilation... – Nick Hingston Nov 17 '10 at 17:03
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    Yes I use already this library but cross-compiling is hard for me, I arrive to build but just the simulator can read my app, I'm lost for understanding armv6 armv7 x86 building. Thank you – Christophe Debove Nov 17 '10 at 17:39