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Despite improved object recognition technologies, Pashto\u2019s hand-written character recognition (PHCR) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many enigmatic hand-written characters, enormously cursive Pashto characters, and lack of research attention. We propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) model for recognition of Pashto hand-written characters for the first time in an unrestricted environment. Firstly, a novel Pashto handwritten character data set, \u201cPoha\u201d, for 44 characters is constructed. For preprocessing, deep fusion image processing techniques and noise reduction for text optimization are applied. A CNN model optimized in the number of convolutional layers and their parameters outperformed common deep models in terms of accuracy. Moreover, a set of benchmark popular CNN models applied to Poha is evaluated and compared with the proposed model. The obtained experimental results show that the proposed model is superior to other models with test accuracy of 99.64 percent for PHCR. The results indicate that our model may be a strong candidate for handwritten character recognition and automated PHCR applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20205884","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,17]],"date-time":"2020-10-17T07:23:22Z","timestamp":1602919402000},"page":"5884","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["Recognition of Pashto Handwritten Characters Based on Deep Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0549-5001","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Muhammad Sadiq","family":"Amin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Robot System Engineering, Tongmyong University, Busan 48520, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siddiqui Muhammad","family":"Yasir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Robot System Engineering, Tongmyong University, Busan 48520, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hyunsik","family":"Ahn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Robot System Engineering, Tongmyong University, Busan 48520, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2435","DOI":"10.1016\/j.patcog.2008.03.015","article-title":"Forty years of research in character and document recognition\u2014An industrial perspective","volume":"41","author":"Fujisawa","year":"2008","journal-title":"Pattern Recognit."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"90","DOI":"10.1007\/s100320050040","article-title":"Offline cursive script word recognition\u2014A survey","volume":"2","author":"Steinherz","year":"1999","journal-title":"Int. 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