Data collection: Finding a suitable source of data is considered a first step toward building a database. The first step in building a database is finding a suitable source. Here, the main goal is to collect images of Kurdish handwritten characters written by many writers. So, a form is designed to do so. The form is shown in Figure 1. It consists of 1 alphabet at a time letter that has been printed on the top right corner, and it has 125 empty blocks. The writers have been asked to write each letter three times in the three empty blocks. The total number of writers is 390. The forms have been distributed among two main categories: The academic staff of the Information Technology department at Tishk International University, the university students of the University of Kurdistan-Hawler, Salahaddin University, and Tishk International University As shown in Table 2. In total there were ten sets of forms, each set with 35 forms for 35 different letters, at first, we decided that nine sets
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