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Recognition of Urdu Handwritten Alphabet Using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Gulzar Ahmed¹, Tahir Alyas², Muhammad Waseem Iqbal^3,*, Muhammad Usman Ashraf⁴, Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi⁵, Adel A. Bahaddad⁶, Khalid Ali Almarhabi⁷

1 Department of Computer Science, University of South Asia, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
2 Department of Computer Science, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
3 Department of Software Engineering, Superior University, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan
4 Department of Computer Science, GC Women University, Sialkot, 53310, Pakistan
5 Department of Software Engineering, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, 21493, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Information System, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia
7 Department of Computer Science, College of Computing in Al-Qunfudah, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 24381, Saudi Arabia

* Corresponding Author: Muhammad Waseem Iqbal. Email: