handwriting recognition with simple training

Question

I\'ve been reading (and trying) OCR programs suggested in previous answers but I\'m still without a clear answer to my problem.

I need to recognize handwritten Engli

Answer 1

I am on the lookout for a handwritten text recognition software. So far the only one giving better results than even abby 11 has been SimpleOCR using the same text for both, which is a freeware for ocr but a 14 day trial for HCR!

Answer 2

From my experience ABBYY is one of the best for handwriting recognition, even without training. (It's possibly one of the most expensive too, though...) They have an SDK for Java.

http://www.abbyy.com

With a free trial, it's definately worth a look!

Answer 3

I know I am answering after nearly 6 years. But if anyone's still looking, try using tensorflow. Their website has a simple example for handwritten digit recognition(MNIST). You can use this example and implement it for handwritten alphabet recognition (you need training data for this, I used NIST special Database 19 to get this data).