What is Recog?

Recog is a Windows program that learns and recognizes characters and symbols. It uses neural networks to identify mouse-drawn characters. You can easily teach it to recognize new characters, or it can even teach itself. The program's accuracy improves as it learns your hand-writing (or mouse-drawing).

It is primarily an educational program. Recog demonstrates the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning. It has been used to introduce neural networks to students from grade one to the senior undergraduate level.

The best way to learn how to use this program is to follow one of the three short tutorials. The technical details relating to the neural networks behind Recog is not needed in order to use Recog. The latest version of Recog can be freely downloaded from the Internet.