Swedish Lion Libre An HTR model for historical Swedish developed by the Swedish National Archives in collaboration with the Stockholm City Archives, the Finnish National Archives and Jämtlands Fornskriftsällskap. The model is trained on Swedish handwriting from the period 1600 1900. Model Details Model Description Developed by: The Swedish National Archives Model type: TrOCR base handwritten Language(s) (NLP): Historical Swedish handwriting License: apache 2.0 Finetuned from model: trocr base handwritten Uses The model is trained on Swedish running text handwriting dating from the start of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century. Like most current HTR models it operates on a text line level, so its intended use is within an HTR pipeline that segments the text into text lines, which are transcribed by the model. Direct Use The model can be used without fine tuning on all handwriting but performs best on the type of handwriting it was trained on, which is Swedish handwriting from 1600 1900. See below for detailed test and evaluation results. Downstream Use The model can be fine tuned on other types of handwriting, or if you plan to use it to transcribe some specific material…
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