Recognize and neutralize! How to identify the numbers in the picture?

Question

Pattern recognition

This means that there is a need to recognize 1-2 digits on a photo, 60x50 in size. The background of the photo is uniform over the entire surface, but on the number itself there are arbitrary stripes, individual pixels, and the number can be slightly arbitrarily tilted. (precisely tilted by 10-15 degrees, not upside down) The spread of the numbers is 1-8.
Attention, question. HOW to cheat in JAVA so that the program understands that we have exactly what ... And what exactly, it must understand. The numbers are from 1 to 8. Nines were not observed further there. Speed ​​is also desirable so that it does not limp.
I understand that I am raising a hackneyed topic, but I have not really found an answer anywhere. Please tell me a rational way to solve this problem. I'm not asking for the final code, although I wouldn't mind, it's just that maybe someone has links to interesting articles or other resources. I am not friends with neural networks, but I feel my meeting with them is coming.
Thank you for reading this essay by a puzzled philosopher... proger. I would be grateful for any answer, at least a little directing my convolutions to work in the right direction. For the longer I suffer from this question, the more my wall of confidence grows stronger in the impossibility of creating a normal, 90 percent accurate system for solving this embarrassment.

Answer 1

Use ready-made OCR libraries