Journal Pre-proofs CNN-based multilingual handwritten numeral recognition: A fusion-free ap‐ proach Deepika Gupta, Soumen Bag PII: S0957-4174(20)30608-4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113784 Reference: ESWA 113784 To appear in: Expert Systems with Applications Received Date: 11 October 2019 Revised Date: 19 June 2020 Accepted Date: 19 July 2020 Please cite this article as: Gupta, D., Bag, S., CNN-based multilingual handwritten numeral recognition: A fusion-free approach, Expert Systems with Applications (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113784 This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd.