Handwritten Devanagari

The Ancient Handwritten Devanagari Documents dataset is a curated collection of historical manuscripts written in the Devanagari script. It comprises digitized images of handwritten texts from various periods, containing diverse calligraphic styles, degradations, and linguistic variations. This dataset is designed for research in optical character recognition (OCR), handwritten text recognition (HTR), word spotting in historical documents and linguistic analysis.