Build a Handwritten Text Recognition System using TensorFlow

A minimalistic neural network implementation which can be trained on the CPU

Harald Scheidl
Towards Data Science
8 min readJun 15, 2018

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Offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems transcribe text contained in scanned images into digital text, an example is shown in Fig. 1. We will build a Neural Network (NN) which is trained on word-images from the IAM dataset…

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