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ICR or Intelligent Character Recognition involves the recognition of handwritten text and other irregular glyphs. Reliable ICR is a tough task, as handwritten text inherently has a lot of variation, attributed to the varied styles of writing of different people from different cultures and also the variations in the handwriting of the same person.

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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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OCR for recognising handwriting in .NET

I need to use an OCR component within a .NET application that can recognise handwriting. We got the MODI component from MS office up and running, and it recognises printed text, but not handwriting. I don't mind paying. Does anyone have any…
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training tesseract for handwritten text

I need to identify handwritten text (icr). No need to understand arbitrary text - I am able to instruct my users to write very clearly, with separate letters and etc. However still there will be some amount of difference between any training set and…
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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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Free or affordable OCR and ICR (handwriting recognition) SDK?

I'm looking to integrate OCR and ICR recognition functionality into a business app we're building to scan forms and other such documents. I've searched for hours and come up with Abbyy, IRIS and another few companies that market their SDKs with 4…
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Handwritten text recognition with javascript

I am trying to implement a system to identify/detect words of a handwritten text in a image. I need to recognize the words in the text. But I feel it is impossible since the images are not readable even for me. For now what I need is to separate out…
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How to locate a specific form field in this image

In Brazil a standard form filled (by hand) for every newborn in a hospital. This form is called "DNV" (after the Portuguese for "Born Alive Declaration"). There is also a form called "DO" (after the Portuguese for "Decease Declaration"). In my state…
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any Python tools for reading Scantron-style data

I am interested in doing some snail mail based surveys but I am looking for quick ways to digitize the surveys they send back. So if I had a question and 5 boxes beneath it where you would indicate your opinion by checking the appropriate box, does…
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Is it possible to give text format hints in google vision api?

I'm trying to detect handwritten dates isolated in images. In the cloud vision api, is there a way to give hints about type? example: the only text present will be dd/mm/yy, d,m and y being digits The only thing I found is language hints in the…
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ICR for machine printed text?

I know ICR is basically used for handwritten(hand printed) data recognition but can we leverage ICR to extract distorted(bad quality) machine printed text by any chance ? if not what is best way to solve the following problem I have a unstructured…
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Detect handwritten characters in boxes from a filled form using Fourier transforms

I am trying to extract handwritten characters from boxes. The scanning of the forms is not consistent, so the width and height of the boxes are also not constants. Here is a part of the form. My current approach: 1. Extract horizontal lines 2.…
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Using Input Capture Register on Timer1 of ATmega328 to determine signal frequency

I am trying to get an Arduino UNO to read a 64cpr quadrature encoder. I specifically want to use Timer1 to measure of the frequency (and hence speed) of one of the encoder signals. I ultimately want to store 10 measurements in an array to compute a…
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how to recognize form data from different fields of form using OCR in java?

I have an image of form which contains different fields like name, number, address etc. I want to recognize data from these fields and save them to database. Now, my OCR is working fine but I don't know how to extract specific field data(name,…
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WPF InkCanvas - how to determine if it has been "signed"

I'm using a WPF InkCanvas control to capture signatures in a Tablet PC application. One of my requirements is to validate whether or not the application has really been "signed". Right now I'm doing this by checking the Strokes collection of the…
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How to check if boxes in an image have text in it?

I have a table similar to this where the text is actually handwritten. I want to be able to check if each field has been filled out but understanding or recognising what each field says is not necessary. I just need to be able to detect that the…
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