Optical Character Recognition with F# and ML.NET

Mark Farragher
7 min readJul 23, 2020

In this article, I’m going to build an app that recognizes handwritten digits from the famous MNIST machine learning dataset:

The MNIST challenge requires machine learning models to read images of handwritten digits and correctly predict which digit is visible in each image.

This may seem like an easy challenge, but look at this:

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