Character recognition, a subdomain of pattern recognition, has been a subject of research since the early 20th century. Hindi is the common and most popular language in the countries such as India, Nepal etc. People use this language not only for conversation but also in their vehicles license plates, documents, sign boards, handwritten notes etc. In recent years, many approaches have been proposed for Hindi character recognition and various applications such as text to speech translator, automatic license plate recognition etc. are proposed for these. Some computationally expensive approaches have achieved desirable accuracy but for light computing devices, recognition of handwritten characters is still challenging task. This paper proposes an approach for recognition of handwritten Devanagari character recognition. 

Keywords: Handwritten Digit Recognition, Deep Learning, Devanagari Script, CNN, OCR.