Body: <p>I know how to train a NN for recognizing handwritten digits (e.g. using the MNIST database).</p>
  
  <p>I'm wondering how to accomplish the same "online", which is <strong>during the process of writing</strong> e.g. I'm writing down a digit, and during the process and while keeping "the pen down", the NN recognizes the digit.
  To make it simpler, I could assume one stroke-order only for each digit (e.g. each digit is written with a certain order of strokes, like for digit 1 is just a vertical line going up to down).</p>
  
  <p>Which is the most suitable NN for the purpose and how to accomplish this?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Have you tried to use a neural network trained on MNIST to achieve that? You can pass the partial input the this NN and observe the output of it and how it evolves.
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Comments.Text: @nbro I haven't tried. However it would surely be sub-optimal, as a static partial input lacks "temporal" information (e.g. direction of stroke).
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Comments.Text: This is a good point!
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Tags: <neural-networks><handwritten-characters>
Title: Handwritten digits recognition during the process of writing
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ThreadText: # Handwritten digits recognition during the process of writing
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-09-14)
  
  I know how to train a NN for recognizing handwritten digits (e.g. using the MNIST database).
  
  I'm wondering how to accomplish the same "online", which is **during the process of writing** e.g. I'm writing down a digit, and during the process and while keeping "the pen down", the NN recognizes the digit.
  To make it simpler, I could assume one stroke-order only for each digit (e.g. each digit is written with a certain order of strokes, like for digit 1 is just a vertical line going up to down).
  
  Which is the most suitable NN for the purpose and how to accomplish this?
  
  **Tags:** neural-networks, handwritten-characters
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Have you tried to use a neural network trained on MNIST to achieve that? You can pass the partial input the this NN and observe the output of it and how it evolves.  
  > **username_0**: @username_1 I haven't tried. However it would surely be sub-optimal, as a static partial input lacks "temporal" information (e.g. direction of stroke).  
  > **username_1**: This is a good point!  
  
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