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Open source handwriting OCR? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for something that I can scan hand-written notes into and have OCR'd. Maybe one that I can even train on my handwriting. Ideally I end up with a searchable PDF of my notes.

People use one-note for this, but I'm not really comfortable with letting microsoft see my handwriting.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you fine tune tesseract on a local hand writing dataset ? Or insert it in context like a pre-prompt ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't possible a year ago when pos6ted around with tesseract. Things might have changed during the last couple of months though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I found the following It migth be possible and affordable

https://konfuzio.com/en/tesseract/

https://github.com/Matleo/Tesseract_fine_tuning_training

https://groups.google.com/g/tesseract-ocr/c/ZLOZpW1fD6I/m/B1Ponc0VBAAJ

https://arcruz0.github.io/posts/finetuning-tess/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

None of that made Tesseract excel in capturing handwritten text...