FAITHFUL HANDWRITING TRANSCRIPTION
Don't Correct Me
How well do models preserve what was actually written—even when it’s misspelled?
31 systems845 handwritten samples947 scored misspellingsUpdated
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Ranked by preservation · higher is better
Preservation measures faithfulness to the writer. Read overcorrection alongside CER and WER: fewer corrections alone do not mean better recognition. Metric definitions
READING THE RESULTS
What do the scores mean?
- Preservation ↑
- The annotated misspelling remains in the transcription.
- Overcorrection ↓
- The model replaces the misspelling with an accepted corrected spelling.
- CER / WER ↓
- Character and word error rates against the literal reference, averaged across samples.
THE RESEARCH
Faithful transcription of contemporary handwriting
A student’s spelling mistake is part of the handwritten record. This benchmark examines when recognition systems preserve that record and when they silently correct it.