# ocr-open-dataset
list all open dataset about ocr.

## printed
|dataset|year|
|---|---:|
|[Born-Digital Images (Web and Email)](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=1&com=introduction)| 2011-2015 |
|[COCO-Text](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=5&com=introduction)| 2017 |
|[Text Extraction from Biomedical Literature Figures](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=9&com=introduction)| 2017 |
|[Focused Scene Text](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=2&com=introduction)| 2013-2015 |
|[Text in Videos](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=3&com=introduction)| 2013-2015 |
|[Incidental Scene Text](http://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=4&com=introduction)| 2015 |
|[The Chars74K dataset](http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CVSSP/demos/chars74k/)| 2009 |
|[The Uber Text dataset](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uber-common-public/ubertext/index.html)| 2017 |
|[The Street View Text Dataset](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=The_Street_View_Text_Dataset)| 2012|
|[The Street View House Numbers (SVHN) Dataset](http://ufldl.stanford.edu/housenumbers/) | 2011 |

## handwritten
|dataset|year|
|---|---:|
|[mnist](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/)| 1998|
|[NIST Special Database 19](https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-19)| 1995-2016|
|[The EMNIST Dataset](https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/image-group/emnist-dataset) | 2017|
|[IAM Handwriting Database](http://www.fki.inf.unibe.ch/databases/iam-handwriting-database)| 1999-2002 |
|[CASIA Online and Offline Chinese Handwriting Databases](http://www.nlpr.ia.ac.cn/databases/handwriting/Home.html)| 2007-2010|
|[CROHME: Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions](http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=CROHME:_Competition_on_Recognition_of_Online_Handwritten_Mathematical_Expressions) | 2012-2013|


## mixed printed and handwritten
|dataset|year|
|---|---:|
|[ETL Character Database](http://etlcdb.db.aist.go.jp/)|1973-1984|