heb-synthtiger-16k (Synthetic Hebrew Printed Text Dataset)

Dataset Summary

heb-synthtiger-16k is a dataset containing 16,000 synthetic Hebrew text images generated using SynthTIGER with 11 different printed fonts.

The text in these images consists primarily of single words, sampled from the 10,000 most frequent Hebrew words, along with words from additional sources such as:

• Israeli place names
• Biblical texts

This dataset is designed to support Hebrew OCR and text recognition research by providing diverse printed text samples.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to the SynthTIGER GitHub repository for enabling high-quality synthetic text generation.

The dataset and generation pipeline are available in the forked repository:
🔗 Hebrew SynthTIGER Fork

Limitations

• This dataset does not include handwritten fonts.
• The dataset focuses on single-word images rather than sentences or paragraphs.

Citation

If you use SynthTIGER in your research, please cite:

@inproceedings{yim2021synthtiger,
  title={SynthTIGER: Synthetic Text Image GEneratoR Towards Better Text Recognition Models},
  author={Yim, Moonbin and Kim, Yoonsik and Cho, Han-Cheol and Park, Sungrae},
  booktitle={International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  pages={109--124},
  year={2021},
  organization={Springer}
}

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Contact

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