Amharic language is the second most spoken language in the Semitic family after Arabic. In Ethiopia and neighboring countries more than 100 million people speak the Amharic language. There are many historical documents that are written using the Amharic script. Digitizing historical handwritten documents and recognizing handwritten characters is essential to preserving valuable documents. Handwritten digit recognition is one of the tasks of digitizing handwritten documents from different sources. Currently, handwritten Amharic digit recognition researches are very few. Convolutional Neural...