Recommendations for handwriting text recognition (OCR) narF ( @narF@lemmy.ca ) Free and Open Source SoftwareEnglish • 2 years ago message-square5fedilinkarrow-up114
arrow-up114message-squareRecommendations for handwriting text recognition (OCR) narF ( @narF@lemmy.ca ) Free and Open Source SoftwareEnglish • 2 years ago message-square5fedilink
Hi! I’m looking for a FOSS app or software that can recognize text based on a photo of my handwriting. Any suggestions?
minus-square Sleekly ( @Sleekly@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoI’ve always used Tesseract to get text from scanned documents. It might work for you if you don’t write in cursive.
minus-square Sleekly ( @Sleekly@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoTesseract unfortunately doesn’t really support cursive. This should work for cursive but might be a bit more difficult to set up. There is also the google cloud vision api which seems to handle cursive quite well but it isn’t exactly foss.
I’ve always used Tesseract to get text from scanned documents. It might work for you if you don’t write in cursive.
And if I do write in cursive?
Tesseract unfortunately doesn’t really support cursive. This should work for cursive but might be a bit more difficult to set up. There is also the google cloud vision api which seems to handle cursive quite well but it isn’t exactly foss.