<p>In short, you would have to train the Tesseract engine to recognize the handwriting. Take a look at this link:</p>
<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12310287/tesseract-handwriting-with-dictionary-training">Tesseract handwriting with dictionary training</a></p>
<p>This is what the linked post says:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It's possible to train tesseract to recognize handwriting. Here are
the instructions:
<a href="https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract" rel="noreferrer">https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Training-Tesseract</a></p>
<p>But don't expect very good results. Academics have typically gotten
accuracy results topping out about 90%. Here are a couple references
for words and numbers. So if your use case can deal with at least 1/10
errors, this might work for you.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Also here is a good academic article written on this subject:</p>
<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.5893.pdf" rel="noreferrer">Recognition of Handwritten Textual Annotations using Tesseract
Open Source OCR Engine for information Just In Time (iJIT)</a></p>
Using Tesseract for handwriting recognition
<p>I was just wondering how accurate can tesseract be for handwriting recognition if used with capital letters all in their own little boxes in a form.</p>

<p>I know you can train it to recognise your own handwriting somewhat but the problem in my case is I need to use it across multiple handwritings. Can anyone point me in the right direction? </p>

<p>Thanks a lot. </p>