how to turn handwritten notes into text with python

1try:
2    from PIL import Image
3except ImportError:
4    import Image
5import pytesseract
6
7def ocr_core(filename):
8    """
9    This function will handle the core OCR processing of images.
10    """
11    text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(filename))  # We'll use Pillow's Image class to open the image and pytesseract to detect the string in the image
12    return text
13
14print(ocr_core('images/ocr_example_1.png'))
15