KurdishOCR Ground Truth

Year: 2021
Size: 522 line-image/transcription pairs reported by the associated paper
License: GPL stated by the paper; exact repository license version not independently verified
Domain: Printed OCR
Languages:
Kurdish (Sorani)
Formats:
PNG TXT

Resource Description

Ground-truth material released for printed Sorani Kurdish OCR research by Saman Idrees and Hossein Hassani. The associated study reports 522 line-image/transcription pairs. The repository distributes the material in three archive parts.

Data Structure

Line images paired with text transcriptions and distributed in archive parts. The first inspected archive contains 178 PNG images and 178 text files.

Primary Publication

Exploiting Script Similarities to Compensate for the Large Amount of Data in Training Tesseract LSTM: Towards Kurdish OCR

Saman Idrees , Hossein Hassani (2021)

This study adapts an Arabic Tesseract LSTM model to printed Sorani Kurdish using limited Kurdish ground truth and synthetic font-based training material. The authors report 95.45% average character …

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How to Cite

Idrees, S., & Hassani, H. (2021). Exploiting Script Similarities to Compensate for the Large Amount of Data in Training Tesseract LSTM: Towards Kurdish OCR.

Dataset Information

Total Size 522 line-image/transcription pairs reported by the associated paper
Languages 1 language
Formats 2 formats
Related Papers 1 publication

Data Access

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Licensed under GPL stated by the paper; exact repository license version not independently verified