ICDAR2015 competition on smartphone document capture and OCR (SmartDoc) - Challenge 2

<p><strong>ICDAR2015 competition on smartphone document capture and OCR (SmartDoc)</strong></p> <p><strong>Challenge 2:&nbsp;MOBILE OCR COMPETITION</strong></p> <p>The goal of the competition is to extract the textual content from document images which are captured by mobile phones. The images are taken under varying conditions to provide a challenging input. The dataset was prepared for ICDAR2015-SmartDoc competition. For more details about the dataset please visit the competition&#39;s website:</p> <p>https://sites.google.com/site/icdar15smartdoc/home</p> <p>http://smartdoc.univ-lr.fr</p> <p>You may also refer to the following paper for more details on the ICDAR2015-SmartDoc competition:</p> <p>Jean-Christophe Burie, Joseph Chazalon, Micka&euml;l Coustaty, S&eacute;bastien Eskenazi, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, Maroua Mehri, Nibal Nayef, Jean-Marc OGIER, Sophea Prum and Mar&ccedil;al Rusinol: &ldquo;ICDAR2015 Competition on Smartphone Document Capture and OCR (SmartDoc)&rdquo;, In 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2015.</p> <p><strong>If you use this dataset, please send us a short email at &lt;icdar.smartdoc (at) gmail.com&gt; to tell us why it was useful to you, and whether you have results or publications we can reference on our website. Thank you!</strong></p>