Handwritten Devanagari COnjunct COnsonants (HDCOCO) Dataset

Handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) for Devanagari has advanced rapidly, yet conjunct consonants remain a major bottleneck due to complex ligatures and diverse writing styles. We introduce Handwritten Devanagari COnjunct COnsonants (HDCOCO), a curated dataset of 50,020 handwritten samples spanning 41 conjunct classes, collected across multiple institutions and public venues to capture wide demographic and stylistic variation. This dataset is also hosted on IEEE DataPort at https://doi.org/10.21227/8yqc-d760 . This Zenodo mirror provides open-access availability without a paywall.