
# Belfort handwritten text recognition

This model performs Handwritten Text Recognition in French on historical documents.

## Model description

The model was trained using the PyLaia library on the [Belfort dataset](https://zenodo.org/records/8041668).

For training, text-lines were resized with a fixed height of 128 pixels, keeping the original aspect ratio. Vertical lines are discarded.

| split | N lines | 
| ----- | ------: | 
| train | 25,800  |
| val   |  3,102  |
| test  |  3,819  |

An external 6-gram character language model can be used to improve recognition. The language model is trained on the text from the Belfort training set.

## Evaluation results

The model achieves the following results:

| set   | Language model | CER (%)    | WER (%) | N lines   |
|:------|:---------------|:----------:|:-------:|----------:|
| test  | no             | 10.54      |   28.12 |     3,819 |
| test  | yes            |  9.52      |   23.73 |     3,819 |

## How to use

Please refer to the [documentation](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/).

## Cite us

```bibtex
@inproceedings{pylaia-lib,
    author = "Tarride, Solène and Schneider, Yoann and Generali, Marie and Boillet, Melodie and Abadie, Bastien and Kermorvant, Christopher",
    title = "Improving Automatic Text Recognition with Language Models in the PyLaia Open-Source Library",
    booktitle = "Submitted at ICDAR2024",
    year = "2024"
}
```


{"language": ["fr"], "license": "mit", "library_name": "PyLaia", "tags": ["PyLaia", "PyTorch", "Handwritten text recognition"], "datasets": ["Teklia/Belfort"], "metrics": ["CER", "WER"]}
PyLaia PyTorch Handwritten text recognition fr dataset:Teklia/Belfort license:mit region:us