title: Most accurate open-source OCR for handwritten numbers?
body: <p>My software needs to read a fixed-length handwritten number.</p>
  
  <p>While I could use a general-purpose library like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract_%28software%29" rel="noreferrer">Tesseract</a>, I am sure there is something smarter. Tesseract will probably misinterpret some of the 1 or 7 as I or l, whereas a software that expects only numbers would not.</p>
  
  <p>Knowing that there are only numbers <em>(American-English way of writing them)</em>, the algorithm could focus on 10 potential matches instead of hundreds of symbols.</p>
  
  <p>Any experience OCRing handwritten number-only fields?<br>
  What open source library/software did you get the best results with?</p>