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Datasets.md

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+We use various synthetic and real datasets. More info is in Appendix F of the supplementary material. Some preprocessing scripts are included in [`tools/`](tools).
+
+| Dataset | Type  | Remarks |
+|:-------:|:-----:|:--------|
+| [MJSynth](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/text/) | synthetic | Case-sensitive annotations were extracted from the image filenames |
+| [SynthText](https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/data/scenetext/) | synthetic | Processed with [`crop_by_word_bb_syn90k.py`](https://github.com/FangShancheng/ABINet/blob/main/tools/crop_by_word_bb_syn90k.py) |
+| [IC13](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=2) | real | Three archives: 857, 1015, 1095 (full) |
+| [IC15](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=4) | real | Two archives: 1811, 2077 (full) |
+| [CUTE80](http://cs-chan.com/downloads_cute80_dataset.html) | real | \[1\] |
+| [IIIT5k](https://cvit.iiit.ac.in/research/projects/cvit-projects/the-iiit-5k-word-dataset) | real | \[1\] |
+| [SVT](http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kai/svt/) | real | \[1\] |
+| [SVTP](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_iccv_2013/html/Phan_Recognizing_Text_with_2013_ICCV_paper.html) | real | \[1\] |
+| [ArT](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=14) | real | \[2\] |
+| [COCO-Text v1.4](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=5) | real | \[2\] |
+| [LSVT](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=16) | real | \[2\] |
+| [MLT19](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=15) | real | \[2\] |
+| [RCTW17](https://rctw.vlrlab.net/dataset.html) | real | \[2\] |
+| [ReCTS](https://rrc.cvc.uab.es/?ch=12) | real | \[2\] |
+| [Uber-Text](https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/uber-common-public/ubertext/index.html) | real | \[2\] |
+| [COCO-Text v2.0](https://bgshih.github.io/cocotext/) | real | Processed with [`coco_2_converter.py`](tools/coco_2_converter.py) |
+| [OpenVINO](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v157/krylov21a.html) | real | [Annotations](https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/repositories/openvino_training_extensions/datasets/open_images_v5_text/) for a subset of [Open Images](https://github.com/cvdfoundation/open-images-dataset). Processed with [`openvino_converter.py`](tools/openvino_converter.py). |
+| [TextOCR](https://textvqa.org/textocr/) | real | Annotations for a subset of Open Images. Processed with [`textocr_converter.py`](tools/textocr_converter.py). A _horizontal_ version can be generated by passing `--rectify_pose`. |
+
+\[1\] Case-sensitive annotations from [Long and Yao](https://github.com/Jyouhou/Case-Sensitive-Scene-Text-Recognition-Datasets) + [our corrections](https://github.com/baudm/Case-Sensitive-Scene-Text-Recognition-Datasets). Processed with [case_sensitive_str_datasets_converter.py](tools/case_sensitive_str_datasets_converter.py)<br/>
+\[2\] Archives used as-is from [Baek et al.](https://github.com/ku21fan/STR-Fewer-Labels/blob/main/data.md) They are included in the dataset release for convenience. Please refer to their work for more info about the datasets.
+
+The preprocessed archives are available here: [val + test + most of train](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NYuoi7dfJVgo-zUJogh8UQZgIMpLviOE), [TextOCR + OpenVINO](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D9z_YJVa6f-O0juni-yG5jcwnhvYw-qC)
+
+The expected filesystem structure is as follows:
+```
+data
+├── test
+│   ├── ArT
+│   ├── COCOv1.4
+│   ├── CUTE80
+│   ├── IC13_1015
+│   ├── IC13_1095  # Full IC13 test set. Typically not used for benchmarking but provided here for convenience.
+│   ├── IC13_857
+│   ├── IC15_1811
+│   ├── IC15_2077
+│   ├── IIIT5k
+│   ├── SVT
+│   ├── SVTP
+│   └── Uber
+├── train
+│   ├── real
+│   │   ├── ArT
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   ├── COCOv2.0
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   ├── LSVT
+│   │   │   ├── test
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   ├── MLT19
+│   │   │   ├── test
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   ├── OpenVINO
+│   │   │   ├── train_1
+│   │   │   ├── train_2
+│   │   │   ├── train_5
+│   │   │   ├── train_f
+│   │   │   └── validation
+│   │   ├── RCTW17
+│   │   │   ├── test
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   ├── ReCTS
+│   │   │   ├── test
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   ├── TextOCR
+│   │   │   ├── train
+│   │   │   └── val
+│   │   └── Uber
+│   │       ├── train
+│   │       └── val
+│   └── synth
+│       ├── MJ
+│       │   ├── test
+│       │   ├── train
+│       │   └── val
+│       └── ST
+└── val
+   ├── IC13
+   ├── IC15
+   ├── IIIT5k
+   └── SVT
+```