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= Optical Character Recognition (OCR) =

== Machine-print OCR ==

* [http://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/APTI/ APTI: Arabic Printed Text Image Database]


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

* [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/fki/databases/iam-on-line-handwriting-database IAM On-Line Handwriting Database]


* [http://hwr.nici.kun.nl/unipen/ UNIPEN database] (Click on link 'CDROMs')

* (Needs Update) [http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~nakagawa/database/index.shtml Kuchibue & Nakayosi] (by Masaaki Nakagawa and Stefan Jaeger)
** Together, these databases comprise more than 3 million Japanese characters from 283 writers.

* [http://www.ai.rug.nl/~lambert/unipen/icdar-03-competition/ The Informal Competition of Recognizing On-line Words (ICROW)] by the Unipen Foundation

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

* [http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/Databases/CDROM1/ CEDAR Off-line Handwriting CDROM1]

* [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~zimmerma/iamdb/iamdb.html IAM Database] - A full English sentence database for off-line handwriting recognition.

* MARG- Medical Article Records Groundtruth ([http://marg.nlm.nih.gov/]) 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.

* [http://kornai.com/Hindi/ Hindi font samples] by Andras Kornai, June 5 2003

=== Miscellaneous Kanji handwritten OCR databases ===

* [http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/prima/TC11//iptp-cdrom2.html IPTP CD-ROM2]

== Combined on-line/offline handwriting ==

* (Broken Link) [http://www.computer.org/proceedings/icdar/0318/03180455abs.htm IRONOFF] by the IRESTE group of the University of Nantes, France, is the first database of this type which is available. It combines handwritten samples of words in image (pixel) and in vector format.
: Contact: Christian VIARD-GAUDIN (cviard@ireste.fr)


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