The purpose of the current PE92 database project is two fold. One is to provide a comprehensive set of character image data to a developer of a recognition system so that the developer can concentrate on developing an algorithm. The other is to offer a means by which an evaluator can compare various algorithms objectively. The authors collected 100 sets of KS 2350 handwritten Korean character images. They tried to collect as many writing styles as possible. The first 70 sets were generated by more than 500 different writers, and each of the remaining 30 sets was written by the same person. Writers wrote down the characters in prespecified boxes and the database was created by scanning the data sheets by an image scanner. Each image is the size of 100/spl times/100 with 256 gray levels. Finally, the authors analyze the quality of the database created and calculated various statistics of the database PE92.<<ETX>>