<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="nofollow 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 <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.5893.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">words</a> and <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.5898.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">numbers</a>.  So if your use case can deal with at least 1/10 errors, this might work for you.</p>
Tesseract handwriting with dictionary training
<p>I have a dictionary of words in a text file, separated by newlines. And I want to recognize the handwriting using Tesseract, and output the nearest matching line in the text file.</p>

<p>This is the first time I'll be using Tesseract, and it's already in my project workspace, I just need the training data.</p>

<p>Is it possible to train Tesseract to do this?</p>