{"id":7752,"date":"2017-10-16T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2017-09-03T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T21:43:23","slug":"handwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/handwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Handwriting Recognition: Digitizing Text from Handwritten Paper Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of OCR for forms processing and text capture is a popular way for businesses to rapidly transfer years of historical paper records into electronic documents and records. \u00a0Companies like <a href=\"http:\/\/formtek.com\/products\/ephesoft\/capture\/\">Ephesoft <\/a>and Kofax\/Lexmark offer technology for rapidly process, convert, classify and map text extracted from scanned images and transform that data into document content repositories like Alfresco.<\/p>\n<p>An important part of the extraction process is recognition. \u00a0Handwritten form recognition has traditionally been very difficult and successful recognition of handwriting has generally been poor. \u00a0But new techniques, especially some involving machine learning, are improving the recognition success.<\/p>\n<p>A recent<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/handwriting-recognition-hwr-market-size-future-prospects-competitive-analysis-2017\/\"> study by Credence Research<\/a> found that the handwriting recognition market is growing rapidly. \u00a0The study estimates the global handwriting recognition market in 2016 to have been about $1 billion dollars and is expected to grow to more than $3 billion by 2025. Industries where handwriting recognition is important include automotive, education, healthcare and many field services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/reddit.png\" alt=\"Reddit This\" title=\"Reddit This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/stumbleupon.png\" alt=\"Stumble Now!\" title=\"Stumble Now!\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/buzz.yahoo.com\/buzz?targetUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F&amp;headline=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/yahoo_buzz.png\" alt=\"Buzz This\" title=\"Buzz This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dzone.com\/links\/add.html?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/dzone.png\" alt=\"Vote on DZone\" title=\"Vote on DZone\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?t=&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/facebook.png\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/save?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/delicious.png\" alt=\"Bookmark this on Delicious\" title=\"Bookmark this on Delicious\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetkicks.com\/kick\/?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/dotnetkicks.png\" alt=\"Kick It on DotNetKicks.com\" title=\"Kick It on DotNetKicks.com\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/dotnetshoutout.com\/Submit?title=&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/dotnetshoutout.png\" alt=\"Shout it\" title=\"Shout it\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F&amp;title=&amp;summary=&amp;source=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"Share on LinkedIn\" title=\"Share on LinkedIn\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/faves?add=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/technorati.png\" alt=\"Bookmark this on Technorati\" title=\"Bookmark this on Technorati\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Reading+https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/twitter.png\" alt=\"Post on Twitter\" title=\"Post on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/buzz\/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fhandwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents%2F\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/google_buzz.png\" alt=\"Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)\" title=\"Google Buzz (aka. Google Reader)\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of OCR for forms processing and text capture is a popular way for businesses to rapidly transfer years of historical paper records into electronic documents and records. \u00a0Companies like Ephesoft and Kofax\/Lexmark offer technology for rapidly process, convert,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/handwriting-recognition-digitizing-text-from-handwritten-paper-documents\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-document-mangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7754,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}