{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/digital-peter-dataset-competition-and","title":"Digital Peter: Dataset, Competition and Handwriting Recognition Methods","arxiv_id":"2103.09354","date":"2021-03-16","proceeding":null,"authors":["Mark Potanin","Denis Dimitrov","Alex Shonenkov","Vladimir Bataev","Denis Karachev","Maxim Novopoltsev"],"abstract":"This paper presents a new dataset of Peter the Great's manuscripts and describes a segmentation procedure that converts initial images of documents into the lines. The new dataset may be useful for researchers to train handwriting text recognition models as a benchmark for comparing different models. It consists of 9 694 images and text files corresponding to lines in historical documents. The open machine learning competition Digital Peter was held based on the considered dataset. The baseline solution for this competition as well as more advanced methods on handwritten text recognition are described in the article. Full dataset and all code are publicly available.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09354v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.09354v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"digital-peter-dataset-competition-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/MarkPotanin/DigitalPeter","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"digital-peter-dataset-competition-and","repo_url":"https://github.com/sberbank-ai/digital_peter_aij2020","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-learning","task_name":"BIG-bench Machine Learning"},{"task_slug":"handwriting-recognition","task_name":"Handwriting Recognition"},{"task_slug":"handwritten-text-recognition","task_name":"Handwritten Text Recognition"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"digital-peter","name":"Digital Peter","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}