metadata
license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- text-recognition
- ocr
- trocr
- handwriting
- gguf
- crispembed
base_model: microsoft/trocr-small-handwritten
pipeline_tag: image-to-text
TrOCR-small Handwritten Text — GGUF
Handwritten text recognition model for CrispEmbed. Recognizes handwritten text from cropped text-line images. Outputs mixed-case text (unlike trocr-small-printed which uppercases).
Architecture: DeiT-small encoder (12L, 384d, 6 heads) + TrOCR decoder (6L, 256d, 8 heads). XLM-R vocabulary (64,044 tokens). 61M parameters.
Source: microsoft/trocr-small-handwritten (MIT).
Model Variants
| Variant | Size | Recognition quality |
|---|---|---|
| F32 | 235 MB | exact token match vs HuggingFace (greedy) |
| F16 | 118 MB | identical to F32 |
| Q8_0 | 63 MB | identical to F32 |
Q4_K not provided — 256d decoder bottleneck is too narrow for 4-bit quantization.
Usage
# Single crop recognition
crispembed -m trocr-small-handwritten-q8_0.gguf --ocr crop.png
# Full pipeline with DBNet detection
crispembed --det dbnet-ic15-q4_k.gguf -m trocr-small-handwritten-q8_0.gguf --ocr scan.png
License
MIT (same as microsoft/trocr-small-handwritten).