Handwritten Text Recognition using Transformer-based OCR
Fine-tuned Microsoft TrOCR on 2,500 IAM handwriting samples, achieving CER below 7% and WER below 15%. Resolved an RGB/grayscale channel mismatch bug, trained a 1.3GB model on Colab GPU, hosted it on Hugging Face via Git LFS, and deployed a FastAPI and Gradio inference pipeline on Hugging Face Spaces.