{"url":"/dataset/textocr","name":"TextOCR","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"**TextOCR** is a dataset to benchmark text recognition on arbitrary shaped scene-text. TextOCR requires models to perform text-recognition on arbitrary shaped scene-text present on natural images. TextOCR provides ~1M high quality word annotations on TextVQA images allowing application of end-to-end reasoning on downstream tasks such as visual question answering or image captioning.\r\n\r\nDataset statistics:\r\n\r\n- 28,134 natural images from TextVQA\r\n- 903,069 annotated scene-text words\r\n- 32 words per image on average","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://textvqa.org/textocr","introduced_date":"2021-05-12","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":{"paper":"/paper/textocr-towards-large-scale-end-to-end","title":"TextOCR: Towards large-scale end-to-end reasoning for arbitrary-shaped scene text","first_author":"Amanpreet Singh","url":null},"license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"modalities":[{"name":"Images","url":"/datasets/modality/images"},{"name":"Texts","url":"/datasets/modality/texts"}],"tasks":[{"name":"Optical Character Recognition (OCR)","url":"/task/optical-character-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/optical-character-recognition"},{"name":"Scene Text Recognition","url":"/task/scene-text-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/scene-text-recognition"},{"name":"Scene Text Detection","url":"/task/scene-text-detection","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/scene-text-detection"}],"languages":[{"name":"English","url":"/datasets/language/english"},{"name":"Chinese","url":"/datasets/language/chinese"}],"variants":["TextOCR"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":37,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}