Recognizing Handwritten Digits with scikit-learn

Handwritten digits recognition is an area of machine learning, in which a machine is trained to identify handwritten digits. Handwritten character recognition is one of the practically important issues in pattern recognition applications. The applications of digit recognition include in postal mail sorting, bank check processing, form data entry, etc. In this blog, we are going to recognize handwritten single digits (0-9) using different machine learning algorithms and then a comparison is made to find out the algorithm which provide the best results. Digits is the dataset used here, which consists of 1,797 images of 8*8 pixel each. Each image is a handwritten digit in grayscale. So, let’s get started. 1) Firstly, we have to import important libraries to be used in this analysis. The dataset is loaded as shown below: 2) Since we have loaded, we can now find out the shape of the dataset. 3) The images of ...