\begin{abstract}
This paper describes the \dbName{} dataset of \underline{ha}ndwritten
\underline{sy}mbols. \dbName{} is a publicly available,\footnote{See appendix for detailed instructions how to obtain the data.}
free of charge dataset of single symbols similar to MNIST. It contains
\dbTotalInstances~instances of \dbTotalClasses~classes. \dbName{} contains two
challenges: A classification challenge with 10~pre-defined folds for 10-fold
cross-validation and a verification challenge.
\end{abstract}