Optical Character Recognition

OCR made from scratch in Python

Required Dependencies

This repository requires that you have following python libraries installed:

• numpy

• scipy

You can install these libraries using the Python Package Manager pip:

[you@machine $] pip install numpy

[you@machine $] pip install scipy

Using the Repository

To use this repository you have to have the above mentioned dependencies installed.

Next you will want to clone the repository:

[you@machine $] git clone https://github.com/DeterminedPanda/OCR

Afterwards you need to switch into the OCR/src directory:

[you@machine $] cd OCR/src

And execute the application:

[you@machine $] python main.py

Accuracy

This repository uses the MNIST digit database and has a accuracy of ~95%.