Algorithm for Hand writing recognition

Question

Is there any specific algorithm for handwriting recognition? The algorithm should recognize the hand written letter.

Any one could help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

There's the dollar family of recognizers which you can use to recognize single or multistroke gestures (and potentially map that to your alphabet) The lastest member of this family is the $P Recognizer. Here's a starting point: http://depts.washington.edu/aimgroup/proj/dollar/pdollar.html

Answer 2

This one seems to win all the major competitions lately: https://github.com/alexgraves/RNNLIB/wiki

Answer 3

Google has released an open source OCR engines Tesseract OCR, and It has an Python binding.
Hope this helps.

Answer 4

You can use a genetic algorithm:

http://www.foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-02/IBS-02-p03.pdf

You can use Greedy Point Match:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/msw/GreedyPointMatchWriteup.pdf

I would suggest reading this paper:

On-Line and Off-Line Handwriting Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

Answer 5

OCR might be a good starting point.