IIIT 5K-Word (IIIT 5K-Word)

Dataset Information
Dataset URL
http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/projects/SceneTextUnderstanding/IIIT5K.html
Keywords
Scene text recognition, scene character recognition
Description
The IIIT 5K-Word dataset is harvested from Google image search. Query words like billboards, signboard, house numbers, house name plates, movie posters were used to collect images. The dataset contains 5000 cropped word images from Scene Texts and born-digital images. The dataset is divided into train and test parts. This dataset can be used for large lexicon cropped word recognition. We also provide a lexicon of more than 0.5 million dictionary words with this dataset.
Technical Details
The dataset contains:
(i) Cropped word images splitted into train and test sets
(ii) Ground truth word annotations, small and medium size lexicons
(iii) Large lexicon from
Jerod J Weinman, Erik Learned-Miller, Allen R Hanson, "Scene text recognition using similarity and a lexicon with sparse belief propagation", TPAMI, pp. 1733-1746, 2009
(iv) Character bounding box annotations