how to recognise handwriting and convert into text?

Question

I'm trying to develop a project that recognises handwriting and converts into text. What are the algorithms and tools to be used?

Answer 1

What you described sounds to me like Optical Character Recognition(OCR).

If you want to implement your own, I would say read through how an open source OCR like Tesseract was implemented.

Otherwise just google for OCR and you will find a list of OCR engines, both comercial and open-source. To list but a few:

• Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
• Matlab Computer Vision Toolbox's OCR: http://www.mathworks.de/de/help/vision/ref/ocr.html

Most OCRs makes use of a combination of a segmantation and image classification(usually done with Convolutional Neural Networks).

See here for more information.