ML_Recognition: A Robust Model for Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Machine Learning Classifiers

Handwritten digit recognition is a branch of machine learning in which a computer is taught to recognize hand-written numbers. Classification and regression are applied using deep learning and machine learning algorithms. In this paper, we discussed the efficiency of different algorithms: Random Forest, KNN, Naive Bayes, SVM, CNN, and Decision Tree Algorithm. Those algorithms were applied in the handwritten digit recognition process using the MINIST data set. By comparing each algorithm by training every one of them on the data set, then by testing, we got the best algorithm to get the optimal results with the highest accuracy. After comparing the results of each algorithm, it has shown that the neural network has the best results with 97.3% classification accuracy followed by K- the nearest neighbor with 97.2%.