I had actually worked on this interactive digit recognizer a while ago. I planned to make it more comprehensive, but will do that later. The basic premise is to have a canvas for the user to write a number between 0 to 9. Then run an algorithm to guess which digit was written. This is a very common problem and has been tackled thoroughly before (For examples, see post offices, license plate reading, Google books). In fact, current methods have over 99% accuracy (but significantly lower on noisy data) when dealing with various inputs. I started with the basics and have a few ideas of my own on where I want to use it next.
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