Computer Vision

Handwriting Recognition

Recognizing handwritten text

7
Datasets
21
Results
handwritten-levenshtein
Canonical metric
Canonical Benchmark

CHURRO-DS

Historical documents from 46 languages, 99K pages. Tests handwritten and printed text recognition across diverse scripts.

Primary metric: handwritten-levenshtein
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Top 10

Leading models on CHURRO-DS.

RankModelprinted-levenshteinYearSource
1
churro-3b
82.32025paper
2
gemini-25-pro
80.92025paper
3
churro-3b
70.12025paper
4
gemini-25-pro
63.62025paper
5
gemini-25-flash
58.72025paper
6
qwen25-vl-72b
54.52025paper
7
claude-sonnet-4
37.12025paper
8
gpt-4o
34.22025paper

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All datasets

7 datasets tracked for this task.

CHURRO-DS

CANONICAL
8results·handwritten-levenshtein
Top: churro-3b — 82.3

IAM

8results·cer
Top: VAN — 16.3

RIMES

5results·cer
Top: Puigcerver — 9.90

Polish EMNIST Extension

0results·accuracy

an-extensive-dataset-of-handwritten-central-kurdis

0results·accuracy

banglalekha-isolated-dataset

0results·accuracy

kohtd

0results·accuracy

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