metadata

license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
language:
  - my
tags:
  - ocr
  - myanmar-language
  - myanmar
pretty_name: myOCR
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

myOCR: Optical Character Recognition Corpus for Myanmar language (Burmese)

The Burmese text data are word-segmented with the delimiter _

Line-level Text Images for OCR are under the folder dataset and zipped.

The dataset format is

<img-file-path>\t<text-label>

Please cite this if you use this dataset

Thura Aung, Ye Kyaw Thu and Myat Noe Oo, "myOCR: Optical Character Recognition for Myanmar language with Post-OCR Error Correction", In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP 2024), Nov 11 to 15, 2024, Pattaya, Thailand.

@INPROCEEDINGS{10799448,
  author={Aung, Thura and Thu, Ye Kyaw and Oo, Myat Noe},
  booktitle={2024 19th International Joint Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (iSAI-NLP)}, 
  title={myOCR: Optical Character Recognition for Myanmar language with Post-OCR Error Correction}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-6},
  keywords={Translation;Optical character recognition;Bidirectional long short term memory;Transformers;Optical imaging;Feature extraction;Adaptive optics;Natural language processing;Convolutional neural networks;Iterative decoding;Optical Character Recognition;Myan-mar language;Synthetic data;Post-OCR;low-resource},
  doi={10.1109/iSAI-NLP64410.2024.10799448}}
}

Coming soon

myOCR model with post-OCR error correction