HKR For Handwritten Kazakh & Russian Database

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In this paper, we present a new Russian and Kazakh database (with about 95% of Russian and 5% of Kazakh words/sentences respectively) for offline handwriting recognition.

• A few pre-processing and segmentation procedures have been developed together with the database.
• The database is written in Cyrillic and shares the same 33 characters.
• Besides these characters, the Kazakh alphabet also contains 9 additional specific characters.