Building a Handwriting Recognition System for the New York Times Crossword | Testμ 2025

:writing_hand: Join Shafik Quoraishee, Engineer at The New York Times, as he shares how the team built an experimental handwriting recognition system for the NYT Crossword app.

Discover how they turned crossword squares into interactive “SketchBoxes,” trained Deep-CNNs on diverse handwriting, and integrated TensorFlow Lite for on-device inference.

Gain insights on preprocessing handwriting, balancing responsiveness with accuracy, and how MLQA ensures vision models perform reliably in production.

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