---
library_name: PyLaia
pipeline_tag: image-to-text
license: mit
tags:
- PyLaia
- PyTorch
- atr
- htr
- ocr
- historical
- handwritten
metrics:
- cer
- wer
language:
  - ar
datasets:
  - KHATT_v1.0
---

Many thanks to Teklia team for their work on PyLaia library!

```bibtex
@inproceedings{pylaia-lib,
    author = "Tarride, Solène and Schneider, Yoann and Generali, Marie and Boillet, Melodie and Abadie, Bastien and Kermorvant, Christopher",
    title = "Improving Automatic Text Recognition with Language Models in the PyLaia Open-Source Library",
    booktitle = "Submitted at ICDAR2024",
    year = "2024"
}
```

```bibtex
@inproceedings{KHATT,
    author = "Sabri A. Mahmoud, Irfan Ahmad, Wasfi G. Al-Khatib, Mohammad Alshayeb, Mohammad Tanvir Parvez, Volker Märgner, Gernot A. Fink",
    title = "KHATT: an open Arabic offline handwritten text database, Pattern Recognition.",
    year = "2014"
```