HP Labs India

The dataset contains approximately 300 isolated samples each of 156 Tamil “characters” (details) written by native Tamil writers including school children, university graduates, and adults from the cities of Bangalore, Karnataka, India and Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. The data was collected using HP TabletPCs and is in standard UNIPEN format.

An offline version of the data is also available in the form of bi-level TIFF images, generated from the online data using simple piecewise linear interpolation with a constant thickening factor applied.

The data is available only for research use.

• To register for the competition, please go to the competition home page.
• Test data (collected as part of the same data collection effort) will be made available later, as per the competition schedule.
• The combined dataset (training + test) will be made available on conclusion of the competition.

• Competition Home Page
• Structure of Training Dataset hpl-tamil-iwfhr06-train, with    statistics of characters
• Details of 156 Tamil Characters with Unicode mappings

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• Online data, UNIPEN format, tar.gz file
  Version 0.2, Released Feb 1, 2006, 30 MB
  
• Offline (image) data, Bi-level TIFF, tar.gz file
  Released Feb 1, 2006, 25 MB

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