Tesseract handwriting with dictionary training

Question

I have a dictionary of words in a text file, separated by newlines. And I want to recognize the handwriting using Tesseract, and output the nearest matching line in the text

Answer 1

It's possible to train tesseract to recognize handwriting. Here are the instructions: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract

But don't expect very good results. Academics have typically gotten accuracy results topping out about 90%. Here are a couple references for words and numbers. So if your use case can deal with at least 1/10 errors, this might work for you.