Handwritten character recognition is a field of research in artificial intelligence, computer vision, and pattern recognition. A computer performing handwriting recognition is said to be able to acquire and detect characters in paper documents, pictures, touch-screen devices and other sources and convert them into machine-encoded form. Its application is found in optical character recognition, transcription of handwritten documents into digital documents and more advanced intelligent character recognition systems. Handwritten character recognition can be thought of as a subset of the image recognition problem. Basically, the algorithm takes an image (image of a handwritten digit) as an input and outputs the likelihood that the image belongs to different classes (the machine-encoded digits, 1–9).

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Kuzushiji, a cursive writing style, had been used in Japan for over a thousand years starting from the eighth century. Over 3 million books on a diverse array of topics, such as literature, science, mathematics and even cooking are preserved. However, following a change to the Japanese writing system in 1900, Kuzushiji has not been included in regular school curricula. Therefore, most Japanese natives nowadays cannot read books written or printed just 150 years ago. Museums and libraries have invested a great deal of effort into creating digital copies of these historical documents as a safeguard against fires, earthquakes and tsunamis.

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Seoul-based edutech startup Mathpresso announced that its math-solver app QANDA reached 1 billion questions solved by the app. The number of Thai users reached 320K - roughly 10% of the national K-12 population with smart phones in Thailand. Developed by Korea's leading edtech startup, Mathpresso, 'QANDA' is a mobile app that enables students of all levels to receive instant solutions and 1-on-1 support from some of the world's top-university tutors. Users can take a photo of a math problem, upload it to the app, and then its AI-based optical character recognition scan will find and solve it in five seconds. Since its launch in 2016, QANDA has solved over 1 billion problems submitted by students from over 50 countries.

We arguably live in one of the phenomenal eras witnessing technological disruption. We are transforming into a more digitalized world where businesses are going digital. Especially, when the recent pandemic situation has made us realize the importance of digitization and global connectivity. As a result, a countless number of physical documents have been digitized using advanced technologies. One of these is Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

Saturday deliveries of ordinary mail from Japan Post may soon be a thing of past. During a Diet session set to begin on Oct. 26, the government plans to submit a bill scrapping such deliveries, sources have said. If the bill is enacted during the session, Saturday deliveries are expected to be abolished as early as autumn next year, the sources said. The government has been refraining from submitting the bill to revise the postal law in order to prioritize responses to sales irregularities involving postal life insurance products. The postal law currently requires Japan Post Co. to deliver ordinary mail six days a week or more.

Saturday deliveries of ordinary mail from Japan Post may soon be a thing of past. During a Diet session set to begin on Oct. 26, the government plans to submit a bill scrapping such deliveries, sources have said. If the bill is enacted during the session, Saturday deliveries are expected to be abolished as early as autumn next year, the sources said. The government has been refraining from submitting the bill to revise the postal law in order to prioritize responses to sales irregularities involving postal life insurance products. The postal law currently requires Japan Post Co. to deliver ordinary mail six days a week or more.

In this tutorial, you will create an automatic Sudoku puzzle solver using OpenCV, Deep Learning, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR). My wife is a huge Sudoku nerd. Every time we travel, whether it be a 45-minute flight from Philadelphia to Albany or a 6-hour transcontinental flight to California, she always has a Sudoku puzzle with her. The funny thing is, she prefers the printed Sudoku puzzle books. She hates the digital/smartphone app versions and refuses to play them. I'm not a big puzzle person myself, but one time, we were sitting on a flight, and I asked: How do you know if you solved the puzzle correctly?