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READ 2016 (HTR Dataset ICFHR 2016)
This dataset arises from the READ project (Horizon 2020).
The dataset consists of a subset of documents from the Ratsprotokolle collection composed of minutes of the council meetings held from 1470 to 1805 (about 30.000 pages), which will be used in the READ project. This dataset is written in Early Modern German. The number of writers is unknown. Handwriting in this collection is complex enough to challenge the HTR software.
The training dataset is composed of 400 pages; most of the pages consist of a single block with many difficulties for line detection and extraction. The ground-truth in this set is in PAGE format and it is provided annotated at line level in the PAGE files.
The previous dataset is the same that is located at https://zenodo.org/record/218236#.WnLhaCHhBGF
The new file includes the test set corresponding to the HTR competition held at ICFHR 2016
Toselli, A.H., Romero, V., Villegas, M., Vidal, E., & Sánchez, J.A. (2018). HTR Dataset ICFHR 2016 (Version 1.2.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1297399
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Handwritten Text Recognition | READ 2016 | DAN CER (%) 3.22 | DAN: a Segmentation-free Document Attention Network for... | factodeeplearning/dan | 2 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
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| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
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| HTR-VT: Handwritten Text Recognition with Vision Transformer | 2 | 1 | 13 Sep 2024 | not harvested |
| DAN: a Segmentation-free Document Attention Network for Handwritten Document Recognition | 1 | 1 | 23 Mar 2022 | not harvested |
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