HKR

Handwritten Kazakh and Russian (HKR) Database for Text Recognition

Dataset Information
Modalities
Images, Texts
Languages
Russian, Kazakh
Introduced
2020
License
Homepage

Overview

The database is written in Cyrillic and shares the same 33 characters. Besides these characters, the Kazakh alphabet also contains 9 additional specific characters. This dataset is a collection of forms. The sources of all the forms in the datasets were generated by LATEX which subsequently was filled out by persons with their handwriting. The database consists of more than 1400 filled forms. There are approximately 63000 sentences, more than 715699 symbols produced by approximately 200 diferent writers. We utilized three different datasets described as following:

Handwritten samples (Forms) of keywords in Kazakh and Russian (Areas, Cities , Village , etc.)
Handwritten Kazakh and Russian alphabet in cyrillic
Handwritten samples (Forms) of poems in Russian

Image source: https://github.com/abdoelsayed2016/HKR_Dataset

Variants: HKR

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Handwritten Text Recognition StackMix+Blots StackMix and Blot Augmentations for … 2021-08-26

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset: