datalab-to/ocr_finetune_example

Example Dataset for Surya OCR Finetuning

This dataset is an example that lays out the expected format for finetuning Surya OCR.

Data Requirements

Image column: The input images (full pages, blocks, or single text lines — mix freely).
Text column: The transcription corresponding to each image.
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Surya OCR supports:

Various aspect ratios
Different image types and qualities
Full-page documents
Cropped blocks of text
Single-line snippets

The base surya model is trained on a wide range of samples from all these categories, and you can combine any of these types in your training dataset for more robust performance, as demonstrated in this example dataset.