PHDIndic_11: page-level handwritten document image dataset of 11 official Indic scripts for script identification

Without publicly available dataset, specifically in handwritten document recognition (HDR), we cannot make a fair and/or reliable comparison between the methods. Considering HDR, Indic script’s document recognition is still in its early stage compared to others such as Roman and Arabic. In this pape...

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Published in:Multimedia tools and applications 2018, Vol.77 (2), p.1643-1678
Main Authors: Obaidullah, Sk Md, Halder, Chayan, Santosh, K. C., Das, Nibaran, Roy, Kaushik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Communication Networks
Computer Science
Data Structures and Information Theory
Datasets
Documents
Handwriting
Handwriting recognition
Identification
Image analysis
Image segmentation
Multimedia Information Systems
Names
Object recognition
Postal codes
Printed text
Scripts
Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems
Writers
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Summary:Without publicly available dataset, specifically in handwritten document recognition (HDR), we cannot make a fair and/or reliable comparison between the methods. Considering HDR, Indic script’s document recognition is still in its early stage compared to others such as Roman and Arabic. In this paper, we present a page-level handwritten document image dataset ( PHDIndic_11 ), of 11 official Indic scripts: Bangla, Devanagari, Roman, Urdu, Oriya, Gurumukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. PHDIndic_11 is composed of 1458 document text-pages written by 463 individuals from various parts of India. Further, we report the benchmark results for handwritten script identification (HSI). Beside script identification, the dataset can be effectively used in many other applications of document image analysis such as script sentence recognition/understanding, text-line segmentation, word segmentation/recognition, word spotting, handwritten and machine printed texts separation and writer identification.
ISSN:1380-7501
1573-7721
DOI:10.1007/s11042-017-4373-y