Handwriting Recognition

[brien colwell]

Just a note -- Microsoft has a tablet SDK that solves some of these
problems. I think it is for C#

On 8/20/07, gregpinero at gmail.com <gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 20, 9:00 am, "Ian Dickinson" <I_Dickin... at bitwise.co.uk> wrote:
> > However a friend of mine who is a special educational needs teacher was asking me if I could write some handwriting recognition software for her, which would allow here pupils to write their input directly on a graphics tablet and then have this input converted to a text sting for further processing. The handwriting would be distinct letters either upper or lower case but not joined up writing.  I would like to help out here as I think this is a valuable  and worthwhile area of education so has anyone out there got any advice that could help me out.
>
> Sure you just use the handwriting recognition library:
>
> import handwriting
> ...
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-handwriting.html
>
> ha ha, I kid, I kid.
>
> I don't think this is an easy problem to solve.  You'd probably want
> Python to be a wrapper around whatever hand-writing recognition
> software you find or buy.  I know handwriting recognition software can
> read the hand-writing on checks, so that may be a starting point.
>
> Alternatively, Tesseract is an up and coming open source OCR engine.
> Perhaps you could build on that to do limited handwriting recognition:
> http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
>
> And here's a wikipedia entry on the subject to familiarize yourself
> with it a bit:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting_recognition
>
> Finally, perhaps you could buy a graphics tablet that already offers
> handwriting recognition and go from there.
>
> -Greg
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