PHN: Pashtu Handwritten Numerals Dataset

Pashtu is a language spoken by 50 million people in the world []. It is the national language of Afghanistan and also spoken in the two largest provinces of Pakistan. It is a language written in complex way by calligraphers. Instead of huge literature and research work in Optical Character Recognition for other languages of the world, this language still requires a mature optical character recognition system. A real dataset of Pashtu Numerals having 60000 scanned images is introduced and make publically available in this paper. All the numerals in the images are hand written images written and collected from faculty members and students of the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. A total number of – candidates appeared in writing the text out of which – are male and – are female. To the best of our knowledge this is the first ever database in literature which is introduced for Pashtu numerals