Azerbaijani Handwritten Text Recognition
Evler.az LLC
An end-to-end OCR pipeline for handwritten Azerbaijani, a low-resource language with no usable existing system. Two-stage fine-tuning of TrOCR reached 3.47% character error rate, against 17.23% for a CNN–BiLSTM–CTC baseline.
3.47%
character error rate
10.4%
word error rate
75.7%
exact-line match
PyTorchHugging Face TransformersTrOCRPython
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