README.md

Nepali Handwritten Character Recognition

NHCR is an implementation of deep convolutional neural network for recognizing handwritten Nepali characters. A web interface is proveded for testing the model with your own input image.

Installation

Use the package manager pip to install pipenv and install requirements.

pip install pipenv
pipenv install --ignore-pipfile 

Usage

$ export FLASK_APP=app.py
$ flask run

Dataset

The DHCD Dataset used in this application is available here.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{acharya2015deep,
  title={Deep learning based large scale handwritten Devanagari character recognition},
  author={Acharya, Shailesh and Pant, Ashok Kumar and Gyawali, Prashnna Kumar},
  booktitle={Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA), 2015 9th International Conference on},
  pages={1--6},
  year={2015},
  organization={IEEE}
}