Historical Danish & Swedish HTR
Collection
Recognisers, a line segmenter, a synthetic dataset, and a live demo for handwritten text recognition on historical Danish and Swedish court hands. • 7 items • Updated • 1
Kraken blla Baseline Segmenter — Historical Danish
🔗 Live visual demo: try the segmenter on real historical pages (original vs detected lines) at https://huggingface.co/spaces/abhishekjha1008/historical-line-segmenter-demo
A kraken blla (baseline + region) neural segmenter, adapted to historical Danish layouts. A complementary, baseline-based approach to the box-based YOLO segmenter: pick what works per document.
Usage
kraken -i page.jpg lines.json segment -bl -m blla_dk_best.safetensors
Produces line polygons for a downstream recogniser. Related: synthetic dataset · live demo.
Author: Abhishek Jha · github.com/AbhiPandit1 · hf.co/abhishekjha1008