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Thanks for the comment!

The algorithm works on a large variety of handwriting (currently only support English).

It's a NN that was trained on ~100k different handwriting examples, and it's pretty robust to cursive / sloppy handwriting. Haven't tried European vs American numbers yet but I'll definitely give it a try now that you've piqued my curiosity

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Thanks for the reply! The European 1 often looks like an upward facing triangle without a bottom line. Surprisingly frequently it has caused European's in the US to have issues with the IRS/Taxes because the European 1 is often interpreted by Americans as a 7 (because Americans do not use a bar across the center of the 7 or Z). A household size of 7 instead of 1 can be a real back breaker!

Pretty cool project / release! How does it do with bubbly teenage girl script? Example: http://www.annakoren.com/images/love7.gif Best to ya.

thanks for the question!

It handles that kind of script pretty well, mainly because we had a good amount of training examples from college student handwriting

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