README.md

metadata

tags:
  - OCR
  - HTR
pretty_name: Tschörmen
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
  - sequence-prediction
language:
  - de

Tschörmen

A collection of manually handwritten random German text chunks, i.e. text snippets, words, word snippets.

The text data originated from WORTSCHATZ LEIPZIG, the words and word snippets are the 150 most common and 150 least common words and snippets within the base data.

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Description

This string data can be found under the labels column.

Apart from the labels we provide two different annotations both collected at the same time, representing the same handwriting in two forms

• input_svg: svg plot of final annotation (black on white)
• input_coordinates: pen stroke coordinates as array of strokes (array of coordinates)

Dataset collection

The dataset was collected using the alphabet application created by the people of easybits.tech.

All samples were submitted by a single annotator within a timespan of a week.