Hi! I’m looking for a FOSS app or software that can recognize text based on a photo of my handwriting.
Any suggestions?
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.
The term you might want to look for is “Optical Character Recognition” (OCR for short) and there are many programming libraries that you can use for languages like JavaScript (NodeJS) and Python.
Not sure of any complete software packages though.
https://github.com/Ajatt-Tools/transformers_ocr
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