zhutie0524/handwritten-text-recognition

IAM dataset

OCR

This project refers to the handwritten recognition with CNN and RNN, decode with CTC.

Demo on youtube

Update

This repo has better model and higher accuracy

Dataset

IAM dataset

• [Model1 - word_model.png] Train on WORD unit of dataset.
• [Model2 - line_model.png] Train on LINE unit of dataset.
• Split data: https://www.openslr.org/56/

Result

Test on IAM dataset:

Model	Test Unit	CER(%)	WER(%)
WORD	WORD	17.20	37.78

Train

[Google colab]

Usage

Training

$ python3 Train.py

Predict

$ python3 Prediction.py

Evaluation

$ python3 EvaluationWord.py
$ python3 EvaluationLine.py

References

https://towardsdatascience.com/build-a-handwritten-text-recognition-system-using-tensorflow-2326a3487cd5 http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html