Recognize text from handwritten documents. This is a way harder problem than recognizing printed text as the variability of handwritten text can be way higher.
Handwriting text recognition can either be conducted:
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“Offline” (no information on pen movement available) Offline text recognition uses Optical Character Recognition techniques. Tools where “offline” handwriting recognition is supported are, for example, Azure OCR API and Google Keep OCR.
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“Online” (information on pen movement available) Since in “online” text recognition more information is available to the computer it outperforms “offline” text recognition. A tool where “online” handwriting recognition is supported is Microsoft OneNote. Online text recognition works considerably better than offline text recognition.
Handwriting recognition works way better for English than German text.
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