My software needs to read a fixed-length handwritten number, for instance 596276
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While I could use a general-purpose library like Tesseract, I am sure there is something smarter. Tesseract will probably misinterpret some of the 1 or 7 as I or l, whereas a software that expects only numbers would not.
Knowing that there are only numbers (American-English way of writing them), the algorithm could focus on 10 potential matches instead of hundreds of symbols.
Any experience OCRing handwritten number-only fields?
What open source library/software did you get the best results with?
Must be open source and work offline. Preferably Java, any other technology accepted (.NET, JavaScript, C, etc) but must be able to run on Linux/Mac/Windows/Android.