PES COLLEGE OF Engineering

SEMINAR ON:
“Handwriting tO Text Conversion”

Submitted by:
Aniket Gangawane 21
Akshay Wankhede 107
Shahid jaber Shaikh106
Krushna Bangar 64
Shahid Shaikh 105

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

GUIDE:
DR. V.B. Kamble
 Outline

 Introduction
 Challenges in Handwriting Recognition

 Objective
 Requirement
 System Development
 Methodology
 Conclusion
 Refernces
 Introduction
 Optical Character Recognition(OCR) market size is expected to be USD 13.38 billion by 2025 with
a year on year growth of 13.7 %. This growth is driven by rapid digitization of business processes
using OCR to reduce their labor costs and to save precious man hours. Although OCR has been
considered a solved problem there is one key component of it, Handwriting Recognition or
Handwritten Text Recognition(HTR) which is still considered a challenging problem statement.
The high variance in handwriting styles across people and poor quality of the handwritten text
compared to printed text pose significant hurdles in converting it to machine readable text.
 Nevertheless it's a crucial problem to solve for multiple industries like healthcare, insurance and
banking. Optical Character Recognition(OCR) market size is expected to be USD 13.38 billion by
2025 with a year on year growth of 13.7 %. This growth is driven by rapid digitization of business
processes using OCR to reduce their labor costs and to save precious man hours. Although OCR
has been considered a solved problem there is one key component of it, Handwriting
Recognition or Handwritten Text Recognition(HTR) which is still considered a challenging
problem statement. The high variance in handwriting styles across people and poor quality of
the handwritten text compared to printed text pose significant hurdles in converting it to
machine readable text. Nevertheless it's a crucial problem to solve for multiple industries like
healthcare, insurance and banking.

 Recent advancements in Deep Learning such as the advent of transformer architectures have
fast-tracked our progress in cracking handwritten text recognition. Recognizing handwritten text
is termed Intelligent Character Recognition(ICR) due to the fact that the algorithms needed to
solve ICR need much more intelligence than solving generic OCR.
Challenges in Handwriting Recognition:
1. Huge variability and ambiguity of strokes from person to person
2. Handwriting style of an individual person also varies time to time
and is inconsistent.
3. Poor quality of the source document/image due to degradation over
time.
4. Text in printed documents sit in a straight line whereas humans need
not write a line of text in a straight line on white paper
5. Cursive handwriting makes separation and recognition of characters
challenging.
6. Text in handwriting can have variable rotation to the right which is in
contrast to printed text where all the text sits up straight.
7. Collecting a good labelled dataset to learn is not cheap compared to
synthetic data.
 Disadvantages of Existing System

 The disadvantage is that it is not done in real

time as a person writes and therefore not
appropriate for immediate text input.
 Applications of offline handwriting recognition
are numerous: reading postal addresses, bank
check amounts, and forms.
 Objective
 The image of the written text may be sensed
"off line" from a piece of paper by optical
scanning (optical character recognition) or
intelligent word recognition. ... A handwriting
recognition system handles formatting,
performs correct segmentation into characters,
and finds the most plausible words.
 Requirements

 All you need is a free app. Your most

straightforward option is to simply photograph
sheets of notepaper with your smartphone
camera.
 Transfer these images to your computer
through a cloud-storage program like Dropbox,
Google Drive, or iCloud, and you can file and
organize them however you like.
System Development
The Creation Of Face Database
The process of attendance taking
METHODOLOGY
Flow of working
FILES INCLUDED
Relationships between these files
Algorithm
detectMultiScale
 Advantages
 Handwriting recognition software allows user to
translate all those signature and notes into
electronic words in a text document format.
 data only requires far less physical space than
the storage of the physical copies.
 Unfortunately, writing by hand also has its
drawbacks. For instance, handwritten text is
harder to search compared to typed text.
Moreover, the text can’t be synced between
different devices. 
 Conclusion:
 Applications of offline handwriting recognition
are numerous: reading postal addresses,
bank check amounts, and forms. Furthermore,
OCR plays an important role for digital
libraries, allowing the entry of image textual
information into computers by digitization,
image restoration, and recognition methods.
Refernces
Thank You!