training tesseract for handwritten text

I need to identify handwritten text (icr). No need to understand arbitrary text - I am able to instruct my users to write very clearly, with separate letters and etc. However still there will be some amount of difference between any training set and the real letters.

I am hoping to train tesseract for this purpose. Has anyone tried this? Any hope in this path?

Does Tesseract work on handwritten text?

The Tesseract OCR engine has been used for both handwritten and printed character recognition. Rakshit and Basu [9, 10] and Rakshit et al.

Can I train Tesseract?

Luckily, you can train your Tesseract so it can read your font easily.

You must have fonts similar to those handwriting letters. You may create them with any font designing tool(a sample is here). Then you can follow the training process as described here.