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  hand-transcribed pages; this open release is the 472 that can be shared. -->
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  A hand-transcribed benchmark for evaluating Tibetan OCR across writing styles and
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- technologies. This is the **open-access subset: 472 page images** with ground-truth
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- transcriptions and per-page metadata (script, technology, legibility). The full
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- benchmark (1,071 pages) additionally has a **held-out private split** kept secret to
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- remain leakage-free — so numbers here are directly comparable across systems without
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- anyone being able to train on the test set.
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  Companion to the model [`BDRC/tibetan-ocr`](https://huggingface.co/BDRC/tibetan-ocr)
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  and the **[leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/BDRC/tibetan-ocr-leaderboard)**
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  (dozens of OCR systems scored on this benchmark).
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  ## Contents & schema
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  One row per page. We deliberately keep **only fully-documentable** metadata; the
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  4. Remove placeholder characters (`K O B I S`).
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  5. `CER = Levenshtein(hyp, ref) / len(ref)` (rapidfuzz).
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- We also report **SER** (syllable-level edit rate), a **repetition-loop** metric, and
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- a **catastrophic-page rate** (pages with CER > 0.5) so that runaway repetition is
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- visible rather than hidden in the mean. Aggregate CER is an **unweighted mean over
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- pages**.
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-
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- ## Splits & integrity
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- - `test` = **472 open images** (released here).
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- - A **private holdout** (~382) and further withheld images (third-party / non-open)
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- are **not released**, preserving a leakage-free evaluation set. Contact BDRC to run
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- a system against the full benchmark.
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  ## License
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  ```bibtex
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  @misc{bdrc_tibetan_ocr_benchmark_2026,
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  title = {BDRC Tibetan OCR Benchmark},
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- author = {Roux, Elie and Werner, Eric and Buddhist Digital Resource Center},
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  year = {2026},
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  howpublished = {Hugging Face},
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  note = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/BDRC/tibetan-ocr-benchmark}
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  }
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  ```
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- Funded by the **Khyentse Foundation** ("The BDRC Etext Corpus"). Numbers are
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- **preliminary (v1)** and may be updated.
 
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  hand-transcribed pages; this open release is the 472 that can be shared. -->
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  A hand-transcribed benchmark for evaluating Tibetan OCR across writing styles and
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+ technologies. This is an **open-access set of 472 page images** with ground-truth
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+ transcriptions and per-page metadata (script, technology, legibility).
 
 
 
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  Companion to the model [`BDRC/tibetan-ocr`](https://huggingface.co/BDRC/tibetan-ocr)
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  and the **[leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/BDRC/tibetan-ocr-leaderboard)**
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  (dozens of OCR systems scored on this benchmark).
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+ The transcriptions were produced by [Dharmaduta](dharmaduta.in).
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+ The images were selected through detailed research on Tibetan writing styles in collaboration
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+ with Pentsok W. Rtsang who selected and cataloged the images. Most writing styles are represented
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+ in the benchmark, except those only present in images that cannot be made fully open access.
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  ## Contents & schema
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  One row per page. We deliberately keep **only fully-documentable** metadata; the
 
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  4. Remove placeholder characters (`K O B I S`).
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  5. `CER = Levenshtein(hyp, ref) / len(ref)` (rapidfuzz).
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  ## License
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  ```bibtex
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  @misc{bdrc_tibetan_ocr_benchmark_2026,
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  title = {BDRC Tibetan OCR Benchmark},
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+ author = {Buddhist Digital Resource Center},
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  year = {2026},
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  howpublished = {Hugging Face},
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  note = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/BDRC/tibetan-ocr-benchmark}
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  }
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  ```
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+ Funded by the **Khyentse Foundation** ("The BDRC Etext Corpus").