Comment by geebee

I've found there's a big difference in OCR accuracy where it comes to handwriting. For printed text, I've used tesseract, but it seems to miss a lot for handwriting. In my experience, google cloud vision is far more accurate at transcribing handwriting. Haven't tried other cloud based tools, so I couldn't tell you if it's better, but I would say that overall, the cloud based ones seem to be much better at handwriting or oddly formed text, but that for basic typeset printed text, open source apps like tesseract do well.