Ancient Handwritten Devanagari Documents

The Ancient Handwritten Devanagari Documents dataset is a curated collection of historical manuscripts written in the Devanagari script. It comprises digitized images of handwritten texts from various periods, containing diverse calligraphic styles, degradations, and linguistic variations. This dataset is designed for research in optical character recognition (OCR), handwritten text recognition (HTR), word spotting in historical documents and linguistic analysis. By facilitating advancements in AI-based text recognition and preservation of ancient scripts, this dataset serves as a valuable resource for researchers in computational linguistics, history, and artificial intelligence. The dataset consist of 100 documents with naming as IMG_001 to IMG_0100.