metadata

library_name: PyLaia
license: mit
tags:
  - PyLaia
  - PyTorch
  - Handwritten text recognition
metrics:
  - CER
  - WER
language:
  - en
datasets:
  - Teklia/IAM

IAM handwritten text recognition

This model performs Handwritten Text Recognition in English on modern documents.

Model description

The model was trained using the PyLaia library on the IAM database.

For training, text-lines were resized with a fixed height of 128 pixels, keeping the original aspect ratio.

An external 6-gram character language model can be used to improve recognition. The language model is trained on the text from the IAM training set.

Evaluation results

The model achieves the following results:

set	Language model	CER (%)	WER (%)	N lines
test	no	8.44	24.51	2915
test	yes	7.50	20.98	2915

How to use

Please refer to the documentation.

Cite us

@inproceedings{pylaia-lib,
    author = "Tarride, Solène and Schneider, Yoann and Generali, Marie and Boillet, Melodie and Abadie, Bastien and Kermorvant, Christopher",
    title = "Improving Automatic Text Recognition with Language Models in the PyLaia Open-Source Library",
    booktitle = "Submitted at ICDAR2024",
    year = "2024"
}