---
library_name: PyLaia
license: mit
tags:
- PyLaia
- PyTorch
- Handwritten text recognition
metrics:
- CER
- WER
language:
- la
---

# HOME-Alcar and Himanis handwritten text recognition

This model performs Handwritten Text Recognition in Latin.

## Model description

The model has been trained using the PyLaia library on the [HOME-Alcar](https://zenodo.org/record/5600884) document images.
The model was trained on images resized to a fixed height of 128 pixels, keeping the original aspect ratio.

## Evaluation results

The model achieves the following results:

Himanis:

| set   | CER (%)    | WER (%)   | support   |
| ----- | ---------- | --------- | --------- |
| train | 5.31       | 17.47     |   18503   |
| val   | 10.37      | 27.63     |    2367   |
| test  | 9.87       | 28.27     |    2241   |


HOME-Alcar:

| set   | CER (%)    | WER (%)   | support   |
| ----- | ---------- | --------- | --------- |
| train | 4.74       | 17.29     |   59969   |
| val   | 7.82       | 23.67     |    7905   |
| test  | 8.34       | 24.57     |    6932   |

## How to use

Please refer to the [documentation](https://atr.pages.teklia.com/pylaia/).