OCR

This was one of the first times I fell in love with Machine Learning, without knowing that the magic came from Machine Learning methods.

I simply had a `pdf` file with handwritten or scanned text, and desperately wanted to find something within the document without having to do it manually.

I google online for an OCR; upload my file; download it back again, and hey presto — such magical, accurate results!

LeNet

Truthfully, implementing the LeNet paper that accomplishes this is just an excuse to feel the magic of OCR once more, but this time of my own doing. Reading the LeNet paper and a PDF Parser in C video uploaded on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NAsrWp9Wto) is inspiring to make a tool for my own learning and terminal utility.

PDF

Finally, I am a massive `PDF` (Portable Document Format) fanboy; I write everything passionately in \(\TeX{}\) for absolutely no reason whatsoever. I have some of my favourite typeset poems [here](https://github.com/abaj8494/poems) and some lovely high-school math [handouts](https://github.com/abaj8494/handouts) that are the culmination of my \(\TeX{}\) wizardry in the `exam` documentclass.