Unable to read handwritten text from form using node-tesseract

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I'm unable to read the form exactly on using node-tesseract.Only the printed text of the form is recognized and returned correctly whereas the handwritten text is returned with some special characters.

My code is,

var options = {
            l: 'deu',
            psm: 6,
            env: {
                maxBuffer: 4096 * 4096
            }
        };
        tesseract.process('./server/images/form.jpg', options, function (err,text) {
            if (err) {
                return console.log("An error occured: ", err);
            }
            console.log("Recognized text:");
            console.log(text);
        });

my input ------> OWNER Brian Dude output------> OW_NER ägga ] )ggé;= ‘

here, OWNER is some text filed here

Possible duplicate of training tesseract for handwritten text — sashoalm
– sashoalm, Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 16:06

XP1 · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-06 08:54:32Z

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Take a look at the following papers. Both are examples that use Tesseract Training process for handwriting recognition.

Tesseract Training for Handwritten Digit Recognition

Training Tesseract for Roman Font Handwriting

Check out the official Tesseract Training page.
The following link takes you through the Training Process, it helped me a lot. https://web.archive.org/web/20170820212334/http://www.resolveradiologic.com:80/blog/2013/01/15/training-tesseract
Use a third party GUI for Tesseract Training, it will make your life much easier. I recommend tesseract4java and jTessBoxEditor (both work on OS X)

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yanana · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-01 10:53:26Z

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You can train tesseract to recognize your handwritten text. See here.

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