Handwriting Recognition

This is a project which I used to learn machine learning. Here I use support vector machines to learn from an existing dataset of handwritten digits in the form of 8x8 pixel images.

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Sample Image

This is an image of the number 0 in an 8x8 pixel grid.

This particular image is converted to an array of numbers which makes it possible to process. A white square is represented as 0 and a black square is represented as 15. Here's what the 0 is converted to:

The SVM learns from multiple such images and you train the model to recognize digits based on these values.