Datasets

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Machine-print OCR

• UW-I English Scientific and Technical Journal pages image database

• UW-II English/Japanese Document Image Database

• UW-III English/Technical Document Image Database

Handwriting

On-line: vectorial, (xt, yt)

• CEDAR On-line Handwriting Database

• UNIPEN database (Click on link 'CDROMs')

• Ethem Alpaydin's on-line digit db

• Ethem Alpaydin's optical digit db

• Kuchibue & Nakayosi (by Masaaki Nakagawa and Stefan Jaeger)

     Together, these databases comprise more than 3 million Japanese characters from 283 writers.

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