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Has anyone ever programmed using CNTK for reading hand-filled documents? I tried OCRs and they dont do handwriting recognition at all (next to nothing). Thinking of using CNTK for the same. I searched and found that not many have tried such a thing. Any advice on libraries or any pointers anyone?

ajhas.a
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Here a basic OCR example using CNTK:

https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/blob/master/Tutorials/CNTK_103B_MNIST_FeedForwardNetwork.ipynb

However, in order to use the model in a real application you will need a way to segment the handwritting.

Emad Barsoum
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  • In addition to the MNIST OCR which is an elementary introduction to CNTK. You will find examples for segmentation examples with R-CNN (https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Object-Detection-using-Fast-R-CNN) and you can look into recurrence based networks (LSTMs: tutorial number: CNTK 106, CNTK 202 and CNTK 204) for additional ideas to combine networks. – Sayan Pathak Apr 05 '17 at 02:42
  • Thanks Emad. The training is going well. If I do crack the segmentation method I shall add as an edit. – ajhas.a Apr 17 '17 at 07:38