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I was wondering if there are some descent handwritten recognition software? I have tried several OCR applications, but they can only work well on scanned printed documents, not on scanned handwritten documents.

The software can be either free/open source (preferable) or commercial.

My OS is Ubuntu (preferable), and I also would like to hear about solutions for Windows.

Although some similar question has been asked before, things can be changed over time.

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Evernote does this. It is multi-platform, but I don't know if the Linux version does that. The Windows version does.

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Thanks! (1) Does the free version support OCR scanned handwritten pdf? (2) Does it have a Linux version? – Tim Jun 9 '11 at 19:08
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The software that comes bundled with the Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet seems to do a decent job.

Though this is using the pen to write with and converting the input to characters in (more or less) real-time rather than taking a scanned image and performing OCR on that.

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