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I have an idea of creating handwriting recognition app, for practice in machine learning skills. Just found useful link here

So dunno how awkward that sounds but so far what I've done is created ascii alphabet file (using library above) and match user input using levenshtein distance and it works like russian roulette :/

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Welcome to dsp.se! It's nice that you want to practice -- and we want to help. But, giving some more details, as well telling us if you tried something already would be nice. I'm personally confused about what you want to do -- do an OCR application for classifying letters, or do you want to decide which handwriting belongs to which person? Further, what do you mean by "parse the font file"? – penelope Jan 14 at 12:23
I agree with penelope: please refine the explanation of your problem and be as specific as possible with what the question is. Furthermore, please remove your second question regarding file parsing and move it to a separate question entirely. You'll probably get better feedback for that question on StackOverflow.. though you'll, again, need to be more specific. – Sean Connolly Jan 14 at 15:19
Also check out this post: dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/7569/… Maybe you and postgres could compare notes as you learn about OCR. It's a huge subject and a difficult problem to solve, but well worth the effort you put into it. – Rethunk Jan 28 at 2:45

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