Tamily-1: Ancient Tamil OCR Synthetic Dataset

Tamizhi "தமிழி"

Description

• Repository: sasicodes/tamily-1
• Point of Contact: @sasicodes

Summary

Tamily-1 is an ancient Tamil OCR synthetic dataset generated from the first 200,000 rows of Solvari-1, a large Tamil text corpus. The dataset contains rendered images of Tamil text with various augmentations and styles, making it suitable for training OCR models.

Fields

• image: PNG image of rendered Tamil text
• text: Original Tamil text

Data Splits

The dataset is split into shards of 5,000 samples each, named as train_shard_XXX.

Annotation process

Each text is rendered with:

• Random paper style (Palm Leaf, Pale Palm Leaf, Red Stone, White Stone, Paper)
• Random background style (No Lines, With Lines, Blurred, With Lines and Noise)
• Random augmentation (Rotation, Perspective, Stain, Ink Bleed)

License

MIT License

@misc{tamily-1,
  author = {sasicodes},
  title = {Tamily-1: Ancient Tamil OCR Synthetic Dataset},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  journal = {Hugging Face Hub},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/sasicodes/tamily-1}}
}