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IAM(line-level) (Line-level Handwritten Text Recognition on IAM)
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
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Handwritten Text Recognition | IAM(line-level) | TrOCR Test CER 3.4 | TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition... | huggingface/transformers +7 | 5 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
5 shown of 5 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 5. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTR-VT: Handwritten Text Recognition with Vision Transformer | 2 | 1 | 13 Sep 2024 | not harvested |
| TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition with Pre-trained Models | 8 | 1 | 21 Sep 2021 | ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified) |
| Recurrence-free unconstrained handwritten text recognition using gated fully convolutional network | 1 | 1 | 9 Dec 2020 | not harvested |
| End-to-end Handwritten Paragraph Text Recognition Using a Vertical Attention Network | 1 | 1 | 7 Dec 2020 | not harvested |
| OrigamiNet: Weakly-Supervised, Segmentation-Free, One-Step, Full Page Text Recognition by learning to unfold | 8 | 1 | 12 Jun 2020 | not harvested |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- IAM(line-level)
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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