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title: Handwritten Text Recognition
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# ✍️ Handwritten Line Text Recognition (HTR)

This project implements a **Handwritten Line Text Recognition (HTR)** system using Deep Learning with TensorFlow.

The model is based on a **CRNN (CNN + BiLSTM + CTC)** architecture and can recognize handwritten English text lines from images.

Deployed on Hugging Face Spaces using Gradio.

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## 🚀 How It Works

Image → CNN → BiLSTM → Dense → CTC Decode → Text Output

The model:
- Extracts visual features using Convolutional layers
- Models sequence dependencies with Bidirectional LSTM
- Uses CTC decoding to predict variable-length text

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## 📂 Project Files