Handwritten Text Recognition on IAM
3.32Character Error Rate (CER)MetaWriter
Evaluation results
| Method | Links | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| MetaWriterArchitecture=CNN-Transf. + MAE, Param. updates=Yes, Test-time adaptation=Yes, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 3.32 | 10.21 | |
| OursArchitecture=CNN-Transf., Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=Yes, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 3.92 | 13.81 | |
| TrOCR-smallArchitecture=ViT- Transf., Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 4.22 | — | |
| Ours (baseline)Architecture=CNN-Transf., Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 4.22 | 14.1 | |
| DocTTTArchitecture=CNN-Transf. + MAE, Param. updates=Yes, Test-time adaptation=Yes, Evaluation Level=Paragraph-level2026.03 | 4.22 | 14.17 | |
| VLTArchitecture=CNN-Transf., Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 4.23 | 14.61 | |
| VANArchitecture=CNN-LSTM + Attn, Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 4.32 | 16.24 | |
| Retsinas et al.Architecture=CNN-BiLSTM, Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 4.62 | 15.89 | |
| Kang et al.Architecture=CNN-Transf., Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 4.67 | 15.45 | |
| Wang et al.Architecture=CNN-RNN + Attn, Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=Yes, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 5.3 | 18.5 | |
| SPANArchitecture=FCN, Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 5.45 | 19.83 | |
| Decoupled ANArchitecture=CNN-RNN + Attn, Param. updates=No, Test-time adaptation=No, Evaluation Level=Line-level2026.03 | 6.4 | 19.6 |