Implementing OCR using a Random Forest Classifier in Ruby - Practical Artificial Intelligence

In this blog post I will show how to implement OCR (optical character recognition) using a Random Forest classifier in Ruby. As our dataset we will be using the MNIST database of handwritten digits and for our Random Forest implementation we will be using Python’s sci-kit learn library. This post also shows how easy it is to integrate the plethora of data science tools from Python into Ruby applications.