The invention relates o an identification method for handwritten numbers. The method comprises the following steps of preprocessing number images, wherein the preprocessing step comprises the substepsof graying the number images, carrying out binaryzation on the number images, carrying out image denoising, segmenting character strings, carrying out number normalization, and carrying out number refinement; and setting up a deep convolutional neural network model, configuring neural network parameters, generating training set samples and test set samples, adjusting the parameters, training thenetwork model, and identifying the numbers through the trained network mode. According to the method, through preprocessing of the image, influences of noises on the image can be prominently reduced,and the images with different sizes can be normalized into the images with the same size; through utilization of the deep convolutional neural network, the training set samples and the test set samples are generated, the parameters are adjusted, the network is trained, and the numbers are identified through utilization of the trained network model. The handwritten number identification accuracy and rate can be improved under the condition that the complexity is similar, and the method can be widely applied to the fields such as post office letter sorting and bank check inputting.