Bounding box for handwritten text

Question

I have a completed handwritten form (form is printed however, it is completed with handwritten information) and I wanted to extract only the handwritten text from the form....

Currently, I have hard-coded the bounding box with openCV and used CNN model to extract the handwritten text. The form is in various template and everytime I will not be able to use the hard-coded bounding box. Is there a way where the bounding box is created automatically based on the handwritten text? Please suggest your options.

Answer 1

Here's a paper on text detection using a CNN . Also here's a whole repo. on papers in OCR ; a few links talk about hand writing recognition.