DASNUS

Year: 2026
Size: 11,475 handwritten lines from 867 writers
License: CC BY 4.0
Domain: Handwritten Text Recognition
Languages:
Kurdish (Sorani)
Formats:
JPG TXT XLSX

Resource Description

A Sorani Kurdish handwritten-line dataset containing 11,475 lines from 867 writers. The creators define writer-separated training, validation and test splits containing 8,042, 1,700 and 1,733 lines respectively.

Data Structure

JPG line images with matching UTF-8 TXT transcriptions and XLSX line and demographic metadata.

Primary Publication

A Modified Vision Transformer for Kurdish Cursive RTL Handwritten Text Recognition

Faraedwn M. Salih , Abdulbasit K. Al-talabani (2026)

This 2026 Research Square preprint presents a modified Vision Transformer approach for handwritten Sorani Kurdish line recognition and introduces DASNUS. The dataset contains 11,475 lines from 867 …

Related Publications

Dataset Information

Total Size 11,475 handwritten lines from 867 writers
Languages 1 language
Formats 3 formats
Related Papers 1 publication

Data Access

Licensed under CC BY 4.0