OCR: weighted Levenshtein distance

Question

I\'m trying to create an optical character recognition system with the dictionary.

In fact I don\'t have an implemented dictionary yet=)

I\'ve heard that there a

Answer 1

A few years too late but the following python package (with which I am NOT affiliated) allows for arbitrary weighting of all the Levenshtein edit operations and ASCII character mappings etc.

https://github.com/infoscout/weighted-levenshtein

pip install weighted-levenshtein

Also this one (also not affiliated):

https://github.com/luozhouyang/python-string-similarity