training tesseract for handwritten text

ocr tesseract icr
Yaron Naveh picture Yaron Naveh · May 26, 2012 · Viewed 6.9k times · Source

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 the real letters.

I am hoping to train tesseract for this purpose. Has anyone tried this? Any hope in this path?

Answer

dg_no_9 picture dg_no_9 · May 26, 2013

You must have fonts similar to those handwriting letters. You may create them with any font designing tool(a sample is here). Then you can follow the training process as described here.

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