M. I. Mobarakeh

HPMD: A Historical Persian Manuscript Dataset for Word Spotting with Line-Level Annotation

Large collections of historical Persian manuscripts have been digitized, but searching them is still slow and mostly manual. Historians usually want to find where a specific name, date, event, or topic appears, which is a word spotting problem. Progress on this task is limited by two things. First, there is almost no p...