I don't think that would be possible to OCR handwriting. As I can remember, the result are pretty useless. Unless using something like recaptcha. Kun
-----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donna Campbell Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Handwriting and ocr On a related note, I am looking for a recommendation for software that provides OCR for handwriting (print and/or cursive). To clarify, this would be pen ink on paper not digital ink. Thank you, Donna R. Campbell Technical Services & Systems Librarian (215) 935-3872 (phone) (267) 295-3641 (fax) Mailing Address (via USPS): Westminster Theological Seminary Library P.O. Box 27009 Philadelphia, PA 19118 USA Shipping Address (via UPS or FedEx): Westminster Theological Seminary Library 2960 W. Church Rd. Glenside, PA 19038 USA -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CODE4LIB] web-based ocr Does anybody here know of a Web-based OCR program or Web service? Many people want to do OCR against digitized texts. We all know of various OCR applications (Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Google's Tesseract, etc.), but they are not necessarily Web-based. As a service to my university, I thought it might be cool (or "kewl") to support an image to text application. Go to Web form. Submit one or more image files. Have OCR done against them no matter how dirty the output. Return plain text. As a bonus, the application would support a REST-ful API. Does anybody know of something like this that exists already? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame
