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What is currently state-of-the-art when it comes to detetcting handwriting from photos?

Tracing strokes is nice but I would be more interested in converting my handtaken notes to markdown.

I don’t know if they are the state-of-the-art, but handwriting recognition in iOS and ChatGPT do wonders for me — even with an ugly handwriting. Though these are more like 90% to 95% accurate, you should review the output before trusting it.

Its pretty remarkable. I've used my phone to take pictures of stickers with model information that I couldn't otherwise reach and was able to copy the text from it. Really wild stuff.

I'm looking for something like that, but free/open source and offline. Suggestions welcome!

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