Chinese Character Recognition

Goal

Train a CNN to recognize commonly used Chinese characters.

Dependencies

Python 2.x, Python 2.7 recommended.

TensorFlow 1.1.15.

Usage

1. Configure the runtime environment: install Python 2.x and TensorFlow 1.1.15.
2. Clone https://github.com/yufeiran/ChineseRecognizer to a local directory.
3. [src] is the image path.

python main.py [src]

Reference Links

OCR Technology Series 4: Text recognition based on deep learning, 3755 Chinese characters

Implementing handwritten Chinese character recognition with TensorFlow, part 1: data acquisition and processing

GitHub Repositories

Complete Chinese character recognition program:

ChineseRecognizer

Learning notes for an introductory deep-learning book:

DeepLearn

Reference Book

Introduction to Deep Learning