jesusbft · PyLaia · Published January 25, 2025

Brazilian 19th Century Handwritten Documents

Text Recognition

Description

Brazilian 19th Century Handwritten Documents - Model v1 This HTR model is specialized in transcribing 19th-century Brazilian handwritten documents in Portuguese. Training Data: Total words: 1,586,666 Time period: 19th century (1800s) Geographic focus: Brazil Language: Portuguese Document Types: Church records (baptism and marriage registers) Civil registry documents (birth and marriage certificates) Notarial documents Legal documents Recommended Use: This model is optimized for historical Brazilian manuscripts from ecclesiastical and civil archives. It performs best on documents with similar handwriting styles and document structures from the 19th century. Version: 1.0

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Low error rate5.62% CER

Character Error Rate (CER) measures the percentage of characters incorrectly recognised. Lower is better. This model scored 5.62% on its validation set. As a rule of thumb, a CER below 10% is considered good for most handwritten material. This is a larger model trained on diverse material, which generally makes it more robust across different handwriting styles. That said, larger training sets also make it harder to push the CER down further.

Measured on the model's own validation data. Results on your documents may differ depending on handwriting style, document condition, language, and how closely your material resembles the training data.

Words1,586,666
Lines201,604
Training Pages6,147
Model ID272569
Languages
Portuguese