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What's the best solution for OCR analysis of handwritten text strings that appear on a map?
More in-depth explanation of what I'm looking for:
I'm working on a large data processing effort involving a library of engineering drawings. These are for utilities, so the drawings are essentially street maps overlaid with features like transmission lines and code numbers related to these lines. The code numbers are mostly handwritten–very neat and consistent engineer's handwriting, but handwritten nonetheless. Also, because the code numbers correspond to transmission lines, they are all over the drawing, at different angles as they follow the lines. I'd like to find an OCR solution for harvesting the code numbers from these drawings; does anyone have any suggestions?
A similar problem would be: given a city map, extract all the street names, addresses, and points of interest.
possible duplicate of Free OCR software and/or Which OCR software has the most options? possibly What is a good handwriting recognition software?
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2011-08-12T20:41:38.2771Not a duplicate; none of these other questions have addressed skew text or combining OCR with graphical analysis of maps. – sigil – 2011-08-12T20:49:33.100
But they do suggest many OCR software packages for you to check out and try; if none of them work my guess would be you're probably out of luck. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2011-08-12T20:54:34.183
Maybe, maybe not, but it is still a different and valid question. – soandos – 2011-08-12T21:21:57.250