Handwriting recognition in java

Question

I am looking to use handwriting recognition and OCR in a piece of software I have made. I was wondering if anyone knows of any (up to date) packages that do OCR or handwriting recognition.

I am looking more for free packages, but I would also be interested in comercial ones.

I have looked at some other articles like this one from '09 but I could not find any that seemed reasonable.

Would I be better off writing in C# instead, and make use of the built in Windows 7 handwriting analyzer?

Answer 1

Try the Tesseract OCR engine from google.This is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available.