---
license: mit
language:
- fr
task_categories:
- image-to-text
pretty_name: RIMES-2011-line
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: image
    dtype: image
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_examples: 10188
  - name: validation
    num_examples: 1138
  - name: test
    num_examples: 778
  dataset_size: 12104
tags:
- atr
- htr
- ocr
- modern
- handwritten
---

# RIMES-2011 - line level

## Table of Contents
- [RIMES-2011 - line level](#rimes-2011-line-level)
  - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
  - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
    - [Languages](#languages)
  - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
    - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
    - [Data Fields](#data-fields)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/records/10812725)
- **PapersWithCode:** [Papers using the RIMES dataset](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/rimes)
- **Point of Contact:** [TEKLIA](https://teklia.com)

## Dataset Summary 

The RIMES-2011 database (Recognition and Indexation of handwritten documents and faxes) was created to evaluate automatic recognition and indexing systems for handwritten letters. 

The database was collected by asking volunteers to write handwritten letters in exchange for gift certificates. Volunteers were given a fictitious identity (same gender as the real one) and up to 5 scenarios. Each scenario was chosen from among 9 realistic topics: change of personal data (address, bank account), request for information, opening and closing (customer account), change of contract or order, complaint (poor quality of service...), payment difficulties (request for delay, tax exemption...), reminder, complaint with other circumstances and a target (administrations or service providers (telephone, electricity, bank, insurance). The volunteers wrote a letter with this information in their own words. The layout was free and the only request was to use white paper and write legibly in black ink.

The campaign was a success, with more than 1,300 people contributing to the RIMES database by writing up to 5 letters. The resulting RIMES database contains 12,723 pages, corresponding to 5605 mails of two to three pages each.

Note that all images are resized to a fixed height of 128 pixels.

### Languages

All the documents in the dataset are written in French.

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

```
{
  'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=2560x128 at 0x1A800E8E190,
  'text': 'Comme indiqué dans les conditions particulières de mon contrat d'assurance'
}
```

### Data Fields


- `image`: a PIL.Image.Image object containing the image. Note that when accessing the image column (using dataset[0]["image"]), the image file is automatically decoded. Decoding of a large number of image files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "image" column, i.e. dataset[0]["image"] should always be preferred over dataset["image"][0].
- `text`: the label transcription of the image.