Recognize a number from an image

Question

I\'m trying to write an application to find the numbers inside an image and add them up.

How can I identify the written number in an image?

Answer 1

Neural networks is a typical approach for this kind of problems.

In this scenario, you can consider each handwritten number a matrix of pixels. You may get better results if you train the neural network with images of the same size as the image you want to recognize.

You can train the neural network with different images of handwritten numbers. Once trained, if you pass the image of the handwritten number to identify, it will return the most similar number.

Of course, the quality of training images is a key factor to get good results.