Ask HN: What’s a good solution for messy handwriting recognition for mobile app?
Looking for an API, pretrained model or some guidance on how to implement handwriting recognition of post it notes, handwritten paper notes etc. for a mobile app.
If you want to learn about rolling your own: https://towardsdatascience.com/classifying-mnist-digits-usin...
https://machinelearningmastery.com/handwritten-digit-recogni...
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/classification...
The only issue is that you'll have to find training data for letters. I'd be surprised if that didn't exist.
Also, Google has an API for recognizing handwriting: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting
I haven't used it, so I can't vouch for it one way or another. But that'd be a pretty easy way to go!
Also it seems the keyword to find models and apis for this is “handwritten text recognition.”