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Handwriting is a person's particular and individual style of writing with pen or pencil.

Handwriting is a person's particular and individual style of writing with pen or pencil. Handwriting is distinct from "hand" or script which is any impersonal and formalised writing style in several historical varieties. The handwriting represents the uniqueness of a specific person.

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How can I implement OCR on a website using PHP?

Are there any free OCR libraries that work with PHP or Python on a Linux server? The idea is to be able to upload an image and pull out characters from it, or allow users to "draw characters", and parse them out of said image.
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Using Tesseract for handwriting recognition

I was just wondering how accurate can tesseract be for handwriting recognition if used with capital letters all in their own little boxes in a form. I know you can train it to recognise your own handwriting somewhat but the problem in my case is I…
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Handwritten English Character Data Set..Where to get (and openly available)

We have created a Handwritten Character Recognition system and now want to test the system on English characters (both digits and alphabets). For digits, we have performed our testing on MNIST data set. However for the English alphabets we have not…
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Algorithm for Hand writing recognition

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
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Android: digital signature using Bezier

I am trying two draw digital signature using Bezier as show in above image.when i touch and try to draw line then the result is dot line but not getting continuous line. Simple signature done by using simple signature but I want to create more a…
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Tesseract handwriting with dictionary training

I have a dictionary of words in a text file, separated by newlines. And I want to recognize the handwriting using Tesseract, and output the nearest matching line in the text file. This is the first time I'll be using Tesseract, and it's already in…
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Drawing on Canvas and save image

I am new to the Android Graphics class. I want to draw an image(actually a signature kind) using the touch events and want it to be saved on SDcard when I want to save it. I have scanned through the web for any such tutorials but I have not found…
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Where to start Handwritten Recognition using Neural Network?

I've been trying to learn about Neural Networks for a while now, and I can understand some basic tutorials online. Now i want to develop online handwritten recognition using Neural Network. So i haven't any idea where to start? And i need a very…
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How to efficiently write code on paper

In my University tests I often have to write programs and algorithms with pen and paper. For example, for my next test I'm going to have to write quite a lot of code in scheme and Java on paper. I write quite a lot of code, but never on pen and…
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How to sign a PDF in Android

I have to implement in an Android application a function that allow me to sign a PDF, when i say "sign" I mean the digital signature (First and second name) affixed to the end of the document from the user. I have access to a Samsung Note 4 (with…
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Handwriting Recognition Java

I know there are other posts about this, but I cannot seem to find one strictly for handwriting. I am going to have a form and all I need to read in is 8 squares in the left hand corner that will have 3 letters proceeded by 5 numbers. The problem…
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What are some algorithms for symbol-by-symbol handwriting recognition?

I think there are some algorithms that evaluate difference between drawn symbol and expected one, or something like that. Any help will be appreciated :))
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FOSS Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR)

Does anyone know of an open source Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) library? There seems to be plenty out there for OCR but I am focusing on recognizing handwriting and would love it if there was an open source solution out there.
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Most accurate open-source OCR for handwritten numbers?

My software needs to read a fixed-length handwritten number. While I could use a general-purpose library like Tesseract, I am sure there is something smarter. Tesseract will probably misinterpret some of the 1 or 7 as I or l, whereas a software that…
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Computer-generated Handwriting

Are there any practical libraries for generating simulated handwriting from a string of text? This does not mean using a handwriting-like font. Rather, I'm referring to handwriting where each letters is rendered slightly differently and connected…
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