Datasets List

Last updated: 2011-001-27

See the datasets sorted according to the Journal / Conference they first appeared in.

Machine-printed Documents

• PRImA Layout Analysis Dataset
• APTI: Arabic Printed Text Image Database
• Table Ground Truth for the UW3 and UNLV datasets
• The DocLab Dataset for Evaluating Table Interpretation Methods

Graphical Documents

• Chem-Infty Dataset: A ground-truthed dataset of Chemical Structure Images

Scene Text

• KAIST Scene Text Database

Handwritten Documents

On-line

• Devanagari Character Dataset

• Harbin Institute of Technology Opening Recognition Corpus for Chinese Characters (HIT-OR3C)

• IAM Online Document Database (IAMonDo-database)

• 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

• IBN SINA: A database for research on processing and understanding of Arabic manuscripts images

• 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

• IPTP CD-ROM2: Miscellaneous Kanji handwritten OCR databases

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