Welcome

Welcome to the web-based offline handwritten text line recognizer.

This web-based recognizer provides an interface to the research conducted Research Group on Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (FKI) of the University of Bern.

The recognition system can be used in an interactive mode. You can choose an example text line or upload your own handwritten text line image. A number of different recognizers are available covering different training data, multiple vocabularies, as well as different approaches to language modelling.

In addition to being used interactively through the web using a browser, the recognition system can also be used by external tools similar to a web service (free for non-commercial use). To include the recognition system, consider the following example:

curl -s -F "recognizer[identifier]=iam_20k_2g" -F "textline_image[uploaded_data]=@image.jpg;type=image/jpg" http://www.iam.unibe.ch/fki/recognizer/textline_images/recognition > result.xml