Datasets

Machine-print OCR

• APTI: Arabic Printed Text Image Database

Handwriting

On-line: vectorial, <math>(x_t, y_t)</math>

• IAM On-Line Handwriting Database

• UNIPEN database (Click on link 'CDROMs')

• Kuchibue & Nakayosi
  • Reference: Masaki Nakagawa and Kaoru Matsumoto: "Collection of on-line handwritten Japanese character pattern databases and their analysis," International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp.69-81 (2004).

• The Informal Competition of Recognizing On-line Words (ICROW) by the Unipen Foundation

Off-line: image, <math>I(x,y)</math>

• CEDAR Off-line Handwriting CDROM1

• IAM Database - A full English sentence database for off-line handwriting recognition.

• MARG- Medical Article Records Groundtruth ([1]) is a freely-available repository of document page images and their associated textual and layout data. The data has been reviewed and corrected to establish its "ground truth". Please contact Dr. George Thoma (thoma@lhc.nlm.nih.gov) at the National Library of Medicine for more information.

• Hindi font samples by Andras Kornai, June 5 2003

Miscellaneous Kanji handwritten OCR databases

• IPTP CD-ROM2

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