This is a TrOCR model for medieval Cursiva. The base model was microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten. The model was then finetuned to Caroline: medieval-data/trocr-medieval-latin-caroline. From a saved checkpoint, the model was further finetuned to Cursiva.

The dataset used for training was CATMuS.

The model has not been formally tested. Preliminary examination indicates that further finetuning is needed.

Finetuning was done with finetune.py found in this repository.

Usage

python

from transformers import TrOCRProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel
from PIL import Image
import requests

# load image from the IAM database
https://huggingface.co/medieval-data/trocr-medieval-cursiva/resolve/main/images/cursiva-1.png
image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw).convert("RGB")

processor = TrOCRProcessor.from_pretrained('medieval-data/trocr-medieval-cursiva')
model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained('medieval-data/trocr-medieval-cursiva')
pixel_values = processor(images=image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values

generated_ids = model.generate(pixel_values)
generated_text = processor.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]

BibTeX entry and citation info

TrOCR Paper

tex

@misc{li2021trocr,
      title={TrOCR: Transformer-based Optical Character Recognition with Pre-trained Models}, 
      author={Minghao Li and Tengchao Lv and Lei Cui and Yijuan Lu and Dinei Florencio and Cha Zhang and Zhoujun Li and Furu Wei},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2109.10282},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

CATMuS Paper

tex

@unpublished{clerice:hal-04453952,
  TITLE = {{CATMuS Medieval: A multilingual large-scale cross-century dataset in Latin script for handwritten text recognition and beyond}},
  AUTHOR = {Cl{\'e}rice, Thibault and Pinche, Ariane and Vlachou-Efstathiou, Malamatenia and Chagu{\'e}, Alix and Camps, Jean-Baptiste and Gille-Levenson, Matthias and Brisville-Fertin, Olivier and Fischer, Franz and Gervers, Michaels and Boutreux, Agn{\`e}s and Manton, Avery and Gabay, Simon and O'Connor, Patricia and Haverals, Wouter and Kestemont, Mike and Vandyck, Caroline and Kiessling, Benjamin},
  URL = {https://inria.hal.science/hal-04453952},
  NOTE = {working paper or preprint},
  YEAR = {2024},
  MONTH = Feb,
  KEYWORDS = {Historical sources ; medieval manuscripts ; Latin scripts ; benchmarking dataset ; multilingual ; handwritten text recognition},
  PDF = {https://inria.hal.science/hal-04453952/file/ICDAR24___CATMUS_Medieval-1.pdf},
  HAL_ID = {hal-04453952},
  HAL_VERSION = {v1},
}