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library_name: PyLaia |
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license: mit |
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tags: |
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- PyLaia |
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- PyTorch |
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- atr |
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- htr |
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- ocr |
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- historical |
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- printed |
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metrics: |
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- CER |
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- WER |
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language: |
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- de |
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datasets: |
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- Teklia/NewsEyeAustrian |
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pipeline_tag: image-to-text |
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--- |
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# PyLaia - NewsEye Austrian |
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This model performs Handwritten Text Recognition in Austrian German. |
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## Model description |
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The model has been trained using the PyLaia library on the [NewsEye / READ OCR training dataset from Austrian Newspapers (19th C.)](https://zenodo.org/record/3387369) dataset. |
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Training images were resized with a fixed height of 128 pixels, keeping the original aspect ratio. |
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| set | lines | |
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| :---- | ------: | |
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| train | 52,834 | |
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| val | 4,667 | |
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An external 6-gram character language model can be used to improve recognition. The language model is trained on the text from the NewsEye training set. |
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## Evaluation results |
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The model achieves the following results: |
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| set | Language model | CER (%) | WER (%) | lines | |
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| val | no | 1.82 | 7.77 | 4,667 | |
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| val | yes | 1.77 | 7.01 | 4,667 | |
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## How to use? |
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Please refer to the [PyLaia documentation](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/usage/prediction/) to use this model. |
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## Cite us! |
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```bibtex |
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@inproceedings{pylaia2024, |
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author = {Tarride, Solène and Schneider, Yoann and Generali-Lince, Marie and Boillet, Mélodie and Abadie, Bastien and Kermorvant, Christopher}, |
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title = {{Improving Automatic Text Recognition with Language Models in the PyLaia Open-Source Library}}, |
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booktitle = {Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2024}, |
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year = {2024}, |
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publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland}, |
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address = {Cham}, |
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pages = {387--404}, |
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isbn = {978-3-031-70549-6} |
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} |
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``` |
