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BanglaLekha-Isolated: A Comprehensive Bangla Handwritten Character Dataset

22 Feb 2017arXiv:1703.10661archive 2025-07-28

Mithun Biswas, Rafiqul Islam, Gautam Kumar Shom, Md. Shopon, Nabeel Mohammed, Sifat Momen, Md Anowarul Abedin

Bangla handwriting recognition is becoming a very important issue nowadays. It is potentially a very important task specially for Bangla speaking population of Bangladesh and West Bengal. By keeping that in our mind we are introducing a comprehensive Bangla handwritten character dataset named BanglaLekha-Isolated. This dataset contains Bangla handwritten numerals, basic characters and compound characters. This dataset was collected from multiple geographical location within Bangladesh and includes sample collected from a variety of aged groups. This dataset can also be used for other classification problems i.e: gender, age, district. This is the largest dataset on Bangla handwritten characters yet.

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