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Free or affordable OCR and ICR (handwriting recognition) SDK?

I'm looking to integrate OCR and ICR recognition functionality into a business app we're building to scan forms and other such documents. I've searched for hours and come up with Abbyy, IRIS and another few companies that market their SDKs with 4 figure prices. Do you know of any OCR/ICR engines that are free or affordable?

Solution

  • https://code.google.com/p/ocropus/

    https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/

    Note that handwriting is a whole different ballgame.