Algorithm for Hand writing recognition

Question

Hello ,

Is there any specific algorithm for handwriting recognition? The algorithm should recognize the hand written letter.

Any one could help would be greatly appreciated in advance.

Thank you

Answer 1

You can use a genetic algorithm:

http://www.foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-02/IBS-02-p03.pdf

You can use Greedy Point Match:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/msw/GreedyPointMatchWriteup.pdf

I would suggest reading this paper:

On-Line and Off-Line Handwriting Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

Answer 2

OCR might be a good starting point.

Answer 3

Google has released an open source OCR engines Tesseract OCR, and It has an Python binding.
Hope this helps.

Answer 4

This one seems to win all the major competitions lately: http://wiki.github.com/alexgraves/RNNLIB