ICDAR2013 – Handwritten Digit and Digit String Recognition Competition

The CVL Single Digit dataset consists of 7000 single digits (700 digits per class) written by approximately 60 different writers. The validation set has the same size but different writers. The validation set may be used for parameter estimation and validation but not for supervised training. The CVL Digit Strings dataset uses 10 different digit strings from a total of about 120 writers resulting in 1262 training images. The digits from the CVL Single Digit dataset were extracted from these strings. This database may be used for non-commercial research purpose only. If you publish material based on this database, we request you to include a reference to: Markus Diem, Stefan Fiel, Angelika Garz, Manuel Keglevic, Florian Kleber and Robert Sablatnig, ICDAR 2013 Competition on Handwritten Digit Recognition (HDRC 2013), In Proc. of the 12th Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) 2013, pp. 1454-1459, 2013.File Naming The numbers before the first minus are the respective class labels succeeded by an unique ID. 2-0202-21-04.png is an image that contains a single digit with groundtruth 2 135579-0001-10.png is an image that contains the digit string 13557