private void readImages2(String folderpath) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
    // iterate on each folders inside the folder
    File[] files = new File(folderpath).listFiles();

    wordClasses = new String[NUM_CLASSES];
    int classes[] = new int[NUM_CLASSES];
    int i = 0;
    for (File file : files) {
      if (file.isDirectory()) {

        // search in the database
        wordClasses[i] = file.getName();
        classes[i] = db.getIndex(wordClasses[i]);
        File[] wordFolder = file.listFiles();
        for (File wordImage : wordFolder) {
          Shorthand word = new Shorthand(wordImage, wordClasses[i], classes[i]);
          testingSamples.add(word);
        }

        i++;
      }
    }
  }