I just searched quickly for handwriting recognition tools, and I got the impression there may not be many good tools out there for it, to my surprise.
Can you send a sample page of the Ancient Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, so we can see whether Tesseract may be appropriate after all? Nick On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:30:03AM +0000, Nick White wrote: > Hi, > > Sounds like an interesting project to me! > > Unfortunately Tesseract isn't the tool you want. OCR is about > printed text, whereas recognition of handwritten manuscripts > requires "handwriting recognition", a different kind of software. > > I'm afraid I don't know much about handwriting recognition, so > you'll have to search for yourself. > > You could try using Tesseract with your manuscripts, but unless they > are very neat and even and "clean" (in a way that's unlikely given > how old I presume they are) you'd probably have better luck with a > different tool. > > Nick > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:09:33PM -0800, grendizer69 wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am new to OCR and just found this OCR community. So if I ask something > > that > > might sound dumb and silly, please forgive me. We all have a starting point > > in > > life. > > > > I have a personal project that I have been planning for a while now. I > > reached > > to a point of the project where I need an OCR software to help me > > accelerate my > > idea. I have HD images of ancient Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. I need to > > convert them to text. The thing is the hand writing is different between > > scribes and the shade of the ink varies depending on the age of the > > manuscripts. What is the best free software available to do the job? and > > also, > > I need the program to allow me to "teach" it new ways of writings. Where do > > I > > start? Again, the OCR is purely for Greek and Hebrew languages. > > > > Thank you in advanced, > > > > G, > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "tesseract-ocr" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email > > to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
