icfoss/malayalam-ocr-words

Malayalam OCR Words

A word-level Malayalam OCR dataset: cropped word images paired with their transcribed text label, split into train/validation/test sets.

Dataset structure

train.csv / val.csv / test.csv   # tab-separated: <relative image path>\t<Malayalam word>
train/ val/ test/                # image files referenced by the corresponding CSV

Each CSV row maps one image file (path relative to its split folder) to its ground-truth Malayalam word transcription.

Splits

Split	Examples
train	61,164
val	7
test	5,755

(One test-split image referenced in the original source archive was absent from the archive itself and is therefore excluded here — a pre-existing gap in the source, not an artifact of preparing this release.)

Intended use

Word-level image-to-text training/evaluation data for Malayalam OCR models.

License

Not explicitly specified by the source data; released here by ICFOSS. Please contact ICFOSS regarding reuse terms if you have questions.

Acknowledgments

With gratitude to everyone at ICFOSS who worked on the Malayalam OCR project — this dataset exists because of their collective effort in collecting, annotating, and preparing the underlying data.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please credit ICFOSS (Indian Institute of Free and Open Source Software).