Learning OpenCV 4 Computer Vision with Python 3 - Third Edition

Finding other potential applications

The preceding demonstration is only the foundation of a handwriting recognition application. You could readily extend the approach to videos and detect handwritten digits in real-time, or you could train your ANN to recognize the entire alphabet for a full-blown optical character recognition (OCR) system.

Detection and recognition of car registration plates would be another useful extension of the lessons we have learned up to this point. The characters on registration plates have a consistent appearance (at least, within a given country), and this should be a simplifying factor in the OCR part of the problem.

You could also try applying ANNs to problems where we have previously used SVMs, or vice versa. ...