I'm a doctorat working in the same domain of your application. I've worked with similar project of OCR and also handwritten word recognition. Here are some of my publications:
- Quang Anh Bui, Muriel Visani, Sophea Prum, Jean-Marc Ogier: Writer Identification Using TF-IDF for Cursive Handwritten Word Recognition. ICDAR 2011: 844-848, Beijing, China
- Quang Anh Bui: Système générique et omni-langage de navigation dans des bases de documents anciens basé sur de la recherche de mots par composition intéractive de requêtes. CORIA 2012: 413-418
- Quang Anh Bui, Muriel Visani, Sophea Prum, Jean-Marc Ogier, Invariants extraction method applied in an omni-language old document navigating system, ICDAR 2013, Washington, USA
I can work for your project with USD 10 / hour
Your sincerely