Hello, Colleagues,
Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least
think it is better than hiring a student key-in.
I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting.
Thanks,
Yan
There was some work done in the UMass CS Dept[1] a long time ago. I'm
not aware of any end-user software available, though some proprietary
systems like Evernote[2] have pretty advanced text in image recognition
capabilities. The high accuracy necessary for recognizing the text of
entire
Perhaps this isn't substantially different from student key-in, but
handwriting recognition may be a good task to outsource to Mechanical
Turk:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Good luck,
-Mike
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 15:50, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote:
Hello,
Parascript (http://www.parascript.com/) has handwriting recognition
software, but it only works reliably for things like forms, checks, and
addresses where there is a lot of dictionary-like context to verify the
image recognition. Generalized free text hand writing recognition is un
unsolved
I'm not sure if you could use reCAPTCHA or not. If you have a large enough
user base for some other application and reCAPTCHA will let you specify the
source document, it could be an option.
http://recaptcha.net/
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.eduwrote:
Hello,
Han, Yan wrote:
Hello, Colleagues,
Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least
think it is better than hiring a student key-in.
I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting.
Most 'handwriting recognition' systems are highly
