PyLaia - Himanis

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

Model description

The model was trained using the PyLaia library on two medieval datasets:

• Himanis (French);
• HOME Alcar (Latin).

Training images were resized with a fixed height of 128 pixels, keeping the original aspect ratio.

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

Evaluation results

On Himanis text lines, the model achieves the following results:

How to use?

Please refer to the PyLaia documentation to use this model.

Cite us!

@inproceedings{pylaia2024,
    author = {Tarride, Solène and Schneider, Yoann and Generali-Lince, Marie and Boillet, Mélodie and Abadie, Bastien and Kermorvant, Christopher},
    title = {{Improving Automatic Text Recognition with Language Models in the PyLaia Open-Source Library}},
    booktitle = {Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2024},
    year = {2024},
    publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
    address = {Cham},
    pages = {387--404},
    isbn = {978-3-031-70549-6}
}