SCANS Data Set - A Reference Data Set for Handwritten Text Detection

# SCANS Data Set<br> <br> A scientific paper with handwritten annotations as reference data set for handwritten text detection.<br> <br> The paper is <pre><code>Sharon Fogel, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Sarel Cohen, Shai Mazor, Roee Litman; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recogniti on (CVPR), 2020, pp. 4324-4333</code></pre> <br> The annotations were made by two people with different pens. The text is randomly taken from "The Fellowship Of The Ring" by JRR Tolkien.<br> <br> The documents in folder `images` were scanned with a Canon Pixima TR4550 with 300DPI. The `labels-` folders contain the labels for paragraph, line, and word level in following JSON format:<br> <pre><code>{ "image_file": "paper-0001.png", # The corresponding image in folder `images` "shape": [ # The size of the image 3495, 2473 ], "properties": [ # A list of all line bounding boxes (for paragraphs, lines, or words) { "type": "HWL", # HWA: handwritten paragraph, HWL: handwritten line, HWW: handwritten word "id": "18", "points": [ # The coordinates of the bounding boxes [ 1243.87096093748, 1515.21674083916 ], [ 2149.01588303892, 1515.21674083916 ], ... ] }, ... ] }</code></pre>