title: Is there a viable handwriting recognition library / program?
body: <p>I'm looking to process a bunch of scanned response postcards that have <strong>handwritten</strong> contact information on them (ie Name, Address, Phone, Email, etc).</p>
  
  <p>I'm curious if there is a viable open-source library or piece of software to do this (ideally Java or R).  In looking around a lot of the information is from 2009 or early and isn't very encouraging.</p>
  
  <p>The language is English.  </p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I've looked at the OCRopus page but the latest version is from May 2009.  Anyone have any experience with this or is there a more recent version?</p>