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Recommendations for handwriting text recognition (OCR) (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by narF@lemmy.ca to c/foss

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Hi! I'm looking for a FOSS app or software that can recognize text based on a photo of my handwriting.

Any suggestions?

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[–] Sleekly 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've always used Tesseract to get text from scanned documents. It might work for you if you don't write in cursive.

[–] narF@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And if I do write in cursive?

[–] Sleekly 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/transformers_ocr

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