Contact:
nemlar@hum.ku.dk

Multimodal corpora
for hand or typed OCR

Availability:
3 existent but only company-internal, 2 existent and freely usable for PreR&D, 1 existent and freely usable for both PreR&D and R&D.
Cost:
4 more than 10,000 , 3 1,000 - 10,000 , 2 100 - 1,000 , 1 less than 100 or free
Adaptability:
3 black box, 2 glass box (you can see but not change it) 1 freely manipulable

R means for research, C means for commercial use.
For availability = 3 (company internal) other features are irrelevant.

Name of Resource	Provider	Size	Other information	Availability, price, manip.
IFN/ENIT	IFN/ENIT		Handwritten scanned pages	2,1,1
Training corpus of Arabic typed written OCR	RDI	1,200 pages of A4 scanned at 300 and 600 dpi	Covering the 20 most famous Arabic fonts under Mac and MS-Windows See description here	1,2,1
Arabic/Farsi font library	Sakhr	26 fonts		3
Arabic Omni Data	Sakhr		Arabic script - OMNI data trained for the feature space of Arabic characters covering both Naskh and Kofi font families	3

MEDAR is supported by the European Commission's ICT programme and is running from
February 1st 2008 until July 31st 2010

Multimodal corporafor hand or typed OCR

Multimodal corpora
for hand or typed OCR