Before revision:  The model achieves a new state-of-art in full page recognition on the IAM dataset and when evaluated on scans of real world handwritten free form test answers - a dataset beset with curved and slanted lines, drawings, tables, math, chemistry and other symbols - it performs better than all commercially available HTR  APIs.
After revision:  The model achieves a new state-of-art in full page recognition on the IAM dataset and when evaluated on scans of real world handwritten free form test answers - beset with curved and slanted lines, drawings, tables, math, chemistry and other symbols - it performs better than all commercially available HTR APIs.