<p>What you described sounds to me like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Optical Character Recognition(OCR)</a>. </p>

<p>If you want to implement your own, I would say read through how an open source OCR like Tesseract was implemented. </p>

<p>Otherwise just google for OCR and you will find a list of OCR engines, both comercial and open-source. To list but a few: </p>

<ul>
<li>Tesseract: <a href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract</a></li>
<li>Matlab Computer Vision Toolbox's OCR: <a href="http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/vision/ref/ocr.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/vision/ref/ocr.html</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Most OCRs makes use of a combination of a segmantation and image classification(usually done with Convolutional Neural Networks). </p>

<p>See <a href="http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-ocr-works.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> for more information.</p>

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Thanks for the info :) . But I want to recognise using image processing. How can I do that?
Anandh Kishan
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Tshilidzi Mudau
<p>I'm trying to develop a project that recognises handwriting and converts into text. What are the algorithms and tools to be used?</p>

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I suggest you take a look at the work of Alex Graves - https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html
Maxim
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This feels a bit much like a "do my homework for me"question to me.  Could you make this question a little more specific?
mindcrime
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I need to know about handwriting recognition through image processing i.e recognising patterns of handwriting in the image. I need some suggestions. Whether it is feasible or not?
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how to recognise handwriting and convert into text?
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# how to recognise handwriting and convert into text?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-08)

I'm trying to develop a project that recognises handwriting and converts into text. What are the algorithms and tools to be used?

**Tags:** pattern-recognition

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I suggest you take a look at the work of Alex Graves - https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html  
> **username_2**: This feels a bit much like a "do my homework for me"question to me.  Could you make this question a little more specific?  
> **username_0**: I need to know about handwriting recognition through image processing i.e recognising patterns of handwriting in the image. I need some suggestions. Whether it is feasible or not?  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2017-10-10. Score: 2

What you described sounds to me like [Optical Character Recognition(OCR)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition).

If you want to implement your own, I would say read through how an open source OCR like Tesseract was implemented.

Otherwise just google for OCR and you will find a list of OCR engines, both comercial and open-source. To list but a few:

* Tesseract: <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract>
* Matlab Computer Vision Toolbox's OCR: <http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/vision/ref/ocr.html>

Most OCRs makes use of a combination of a segmantation and image classification(usually done with Convolutional Neural Networks).

See [here](http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-ocr-works.html) for more information.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Thanks for the info :) . But I want to recognise using image processing. How can I do that?  

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