Applications are invited for participation in the Panorama Research paid global handwriting data collection project.
The project seeks to collect phone images of different types of handwritten documents, which shall be taken through the mobile phone camera and submitted to our shared Google Folders.
It requires documents with handwritten text, ranging from shopping lists, medical forms, school notes, diaries, journals, contracts, wills etc. Participants shall collect handwriting samples of documents (through phone camera) that will be used to train a client’s OCR engines to detect characters and handwriting. About 60,000 document images per language from different people across seven languages, are required.
Data shall be collected from the following languages and nationals: Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean (All language variants accepted).
Benefits
$12,000 for 60,000 valid document images submitted, paid monthly, through Paypal for all submitted images.
Basic requirements:
- Acceptable photo format is JPEG (.jpg) and the resolution should be at least 1024*768 and 5MP size
- Unlimited Submissions – You can submit as many handwritten document images as you can, so long as they bear different handwritings
- Clear and legible handwriting.
- Non-blurry images – We only accept CLEAR images of handwritten documents for payment.
- Minimum of 3 lines or 3 filled blanks in each document (and 10 words)
- No personal details, e.g. names, phone numbers, tax numbers that should be submitted. Kindly blur or block these as you take the photos.
- No documents with mathematical formulas
- Documents need to belong to the relevant categories.
- Do not submit too many documents of one category bearing one handwriting – We need DIVERSITY of handwriting – reach out to as many people from different backgrounds as you can to share the handwritten documents with you.
- DIVERSITY of document formats and diversity of handwritings.
- Images of documents should be taken in a variety of lighting conditions. e.g. natural light, room lighting, phone flash etc.
- Contributors will require a valid Paypal mail address
How to Apply
Application Deadline:
