The Synthetic Text line Image Generator (STIG) is a software dedicated to handwritten textline generation. It is available for free under conditions (see below).
Description
The Synthetic Text line Image Generator is a Python code dedicated to the generation of synthetic handwritten textline images. The software can generate textlines looking like modern or historical documents. It has been developed in parallel of The Modular Light Transformer, a software dedicated to text recognition and which is based on a lightweight Transformer-based neural network dealing with text-line images.
The proposed software is a Python code for generating synthetic handwriting with realistic deformations. Examples of historical handwritten textlines generated by the system are shown below.
How to get the STIG ?
To use the STIG, you agree to comply with the terms of the CLIC license (especially the use only for research purposes) and to reference the article below :
Barrere, K., Soullard, Y., Lemaitre, A., & Coüasnon, B. (2024). Training transformer architectures on few annotated data: an application to historical handwritten text recognition. International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR), 1-14.
ℹ️ To access the Modular Light Transformer: please follow this link.
