Just a note -- Microsoft has a tablet SDK that solves some of these problems. I think it is for C#
On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 20, 9:00 am, "Ian Dickinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However a friend of mine who is a special educational needs teacher was > > asking me if I could write some handwriting recognition software for her, > > which would allow here pupils to write their input directly on a graphics > > tablet and then have this input converted to a text sting for further > > processing. The handwriting would be distinct letters either upper or lower > > case but not joined up writing. I would like to help out here as I think > > this is a valuable and worthwhile area of education so has anyone out > > there got any advice that could help me out. > > Sure you just use the handwriting recognition library: > > import handwriting > ... > > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-handwriting.html > > ha ha, I kid, I kid. > > I don't think this is an easy problem to solve. You'd probably want > Python to be a wrapper around whatever hand-writing recognition > software you find or buy. I know handwriting recognition software can > read the hand-writing on checks, so that may be a starting point. > > Alternatively, Tesseract is an up and coming open source OCR engine. > Perhaps you could build on that to do limited handwriting recognition: > http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ > > And here's a wikipedia entry on the subject to familiarize yourself > with it a bit: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting_recognition > > Finally, perhaps you could buy a graphics tablet that already offers > handwriting recognition and go from there. > > -Greg > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
