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A comment on OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google and used by reCAPTCHA.

Re:OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google... by aschobel on Sunday April 18, 2010 @02:56PM (#1275271)
Is there something similar for handwritten text?
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Re:OCRopus: high-quality open source OCR sponsored by Google... by ZeroGravitas on Monday April 19, 2010 @06:31AM (#1276432)
The links says: "The OCRopus engine is based on two research projects: a high-performance handwriting recognizer developed in the mid-90's and deployed by the US Census bureau, and novel high-performance layout analysis methods.", so it appears so.
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