The basic description for what I'm looking for is something that can extract text (written by hand) from an image and return it as a plain character stream, without any page processing.

More specifications:

• I am using Java for the software I'm developing, so having a Java library would be nice, although if the software/library has a binary it's fine

• The images it should be able to process are pictures of paper that has text on it written by hand, though what the software has to recognize is between 6 and 66 characters that will be written by hand, but more "computer recognizable", kinda like this:

• The text must be extracted line by line; in the case of a table, it should just regard each row and column as another line, no special processing required

My own research pointed me to the following software/libraries:

• Asprise Java OCR

• Tesseract

• ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK

I've tested both Tesseract and ABBYY, and the result they provide is VERY FAR from what I expect: Tesseract gave me an output of 200+ characters for the image I attached to this post and ABBYY did not provide any characters, just some lines.