metadata

title: Handwriting OCR Data Collection
emoji: ✍️
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: indigo
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.15.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
short_description: Collect handwritten text samples for OCR training
tags:
  - ocr
  - handwriting
  - dataset
  - computer-vision
hf_oauth: true
hf_oauth_expiration_minutes: 480
hf_oauth_scopes:
  - read-repos
  - write-repos
  - manage-repos
  - inference-api

Handwriting OCR Dataset Collection

This Space provides an interface for collecting handwritten samples of text to create a dataset for OCR (Optical Character Recognition) training. Users are presented with text snippets which they can handwrite and upload as images.

How it Works

You will be shown 1-5 consecutive sentences about OCR and handwriting recognition
Write these sentences by hand on paper
Take a photo or scan of your handwriting
Upload the image through the interface
Submit or skip to get a new text block

The collected data pairs (text and corresponding handwritten images) will be used to train and improve handwriting recognition models.

Usage

Simply visit the Space and follow the on-screen instructions to contribute your handwriting samples to the dataset.