alt Hacker News> Regular handwriting there are many.
Please share. I am out of the loop and my searches have not pointed me to the state of the art, which has seen major steps forward in the past 3 or 4 years but most of it seems to be closed or attached to larger AI products.
Is it even still called OCR?
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fragmede • today at 1:17 PM
Totally not what you asked, but making an OCR model is a learning exercise for AI research students. Using the Kaggle-hosted dataset https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landlord/handwriting-recogni... and a tutorial, eg https://pyimagesearch.com/2020/08/17/ocr-with-keras-tensorfl... you can follow along and train your own OCR model!
The best open source OCR model for handwriting in my experience is surya-v2 or nougat, really depends on the docs which is better, each got about 90% accuracy (cosine similarity) in my tests. I have not tried Deepseek-OCR, but mean to at some point.