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There are two options for this, one is online and the other is offline handwriting recognition. Online is when you have info about the strokes (e.g. writing on
by ocrcustomserver 9y ago
There are two options for this, one is online and the other is offline handwriting recognition.
Online is when you have info about the strokes (e.g. writing on a tablet or on a HTML5 canvas), offline is when you don't anything other than the image.
Online is mostly solved, offline is not working well yet. Deep learning will certainly help accelerating progress.
I'm working on a prototype that extracts (and transcribes) handwriting info from PDF documents (like forms).
- WalterBright 9y agoNice to see someone working on it! The online system is not so useful, I prefer to type when I have the option anyway. It's faster. The offline system initially doesn't even need to be that accurate. OCRing printed text must be accurate because of the sheer volume being OCRed. Handwritten stuff tends to be of far smaller volume, and so can be hand-corrected more practically.