IAM

IAM Handwriting

Dataset Information
Languages
Thai
Introduced
2018
License
Custom (research-only, non-commercial, attribution)
Homepage
Official Website
Contents

Overview

The IAM database contains 13,353 images of handwritten lines of text created by 657 writers. The texts those writers transcribed are from the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus of British English. It includes contributions from 657 writers making a total of 1,539 handwritten pages comprising of 115,320 words and is categorized as part of modern collection. The database is labeled at the sentence, line, and word levels.

Source: Measuring Human Perception to Improve Handwritten Document Transcription
Image Source: https://fki.tic.heia-fr.ch/databases/iam-handwriting-database

Variants: IAM

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Handwritten Text Recognition HTR-VT(line-level) HTR-VT: Handwritten Text Recognition with … 2024-09-13
Handwritten Text Recognition DTrOCR 105M DTrOCR: Decoder-only Transformer for Optical … 2023-08-30
Handwritten Text Recognition Easter2.0 Easter2.0: Improving convolutional models for … 2022-05-30
Handwritten Text Recognition TrOCR-base 334M TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition … 2021-09-21
Handwritten Text Recognition TrOCR-small 62M TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition … 2021-09-21
Handwritten Text Recognition TrOCR-large 558M TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition … 2021-09-21
Handwritten Text Recognition Self-Attention + CTC + language model Rethinking Text Line Recognition Models 2021-04-15
Handwritten Text Recognition Transformer + CNN Rethinking Text Line Recognition Models 2021-04-15
Handwritten Text Recognition FPHR+Aug Line Level (~145 dpi) Full Page Handwriting Recognition via … 2021-03-11
Handwritten Text Recognition FPHR Paragraph Level (~145 dpi) Full Page Handwriting Recognition via … 2021-03-11
Handwritten Text Recognition FPHR+Aug Paragraph Level (~145 dpi) Full Page Handwriting Recognition via … 2021-03-11
Handwritten Text Recognition VAN End-to-end Handwritten Paragraph Text Recognition … 2020-12-07
Handwritten Text Recognition Transformer w/ CNN Pay Attention to What You … 2020-05-26
Handwritten Text Recognition Transformer w/ CNN (+synth) Pay Attention to What You … 2020-05-26
Handwritten Text Recognition Decouple Attention Network Decoupled Attention Network for Text … 2019-12-21
Handwritten Text Recognition Leaky LP Cell No Padding Please: Efficient Neural … 2019-02-28

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset:

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