Handwritten text generation and strikethrough characters augmentation

no code implementations • 14 Dec 2021 • Alex Shonenkov, Denis Karachev, Max Novopoltsev, Mark Potanin, Denis Dimitrov, Andrey Chertok

We introduce two data augmentation techniques, which, used with a Resnet-BiLSTM-CTC network, significantly reduce Word Error Rate (WER) and Character Error Rate (CER) beyond best-reported results on handwriting text recognition (HTR) tasks.

Data Augmentation HTR +1