ICDAR13/15

ICDAR 13/15 formats are typically used for text detection and recognition tasks and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

These formats are usually paired with specialized text detection and recognition models.

For more information, see:

• ICDAR13/15
• Dataset examples

ICDAR13/15 export

• ICDAR Recognition 1.0 (Text recognition):
  • Supported annotations: Tags with the icdar label
  • Attributes: caption.
• ICDAR Detection 1.0 (Text detection):
  • Supported annotations: Bounding Boxes, Polygons with the icdar label
  • Attributes: text.
• ICDAR Segmentation 1.0 (Text segmentation):
  • Supported annotations: Masks, Bounding Boxes, Polygons, or Ellipses with the icdar label
  • Attributes: index, text, color, center
• Tracks: Not supported.

The downloaded file is a .zip archive with the following structure:

# text recognition task
taskname.zip/
└── word_recognition/
    └── <any_subset_name>/
        ├── images
        |   ├── word1.png
        |   └── word2.png
        └── gt.txt
# text localization task
taskname.zip/
└── text_localization/
    └── <any_subset_name>/
        ├── images
        |   ├── img_1.png
        |   └── img_2.png
        ├── gt_img_1.txt
        └── gt_img_1.txt
#text segmentation task
taskname.zip/
└── text_localization/
    └── <any_subset_name>/
        ├── images
        |   ├── 1.png
        |   └── 2.png
        ├── 1_GT.bmp
        ├── 1_GT.txt
        ├── 2_GT.bmp
        └── 2_GT.txt

ICDAR13/15 import

Word recognition task:

• Supported annotations: Tags with the icdar label and caption attribute

Text localization task:

• Supported annotations: Rectangles and Polygons with the icdar label and text attribute

Text segmentation task:

• Supported annotations: Masks or Polygons with the icdar label and index, text, color, center attributes

Uploaded file: a .zip archive of the structure above