Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.
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Handwriting, historical print and manuscript recognition. Notes on languages, text-line segmentation and transcription conventions.
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Riksarkivet/trocr-base-handwritten-hist-swe-2
Image-to-Text • 0.4B • Updated • 89.9k • 17 -
BDRC/tibetan-ocr
Image-Text-to-Text • 0.8B • Updated • 227 • 3 -
isaacmg/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v19a-ckpt
Image-Text-to-Text • Updated • 44 -
magistermilitum/tridis_v2_HTR_historical_manuscripts
0.6B • Updated • 308 • 7
Roughly ordered by recent releases, useful updates and current usage. Practical OCR and document parsing models. Reviewed September 2026.
The reasoning datasets that defined 2025. Part 1 of Datasets Wrapped 2025. #DatasetsWrapped2025
Creating a smol model for tl;dr-ing the hub
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davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr
Text Generation • 0.4B • Updated • 67 • 11 -
Semantic Hugging Face Hub Search
🔎93Search Hugging Face datasets and models by meaning
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davanstrien/hub-tldr-dataset-summaries-llama
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 33 • 1 -
davanstrien/hub-tldr-model-summaries-llama
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 27 • 1
A collection of demos for various approaches to synthetic data generation
Papers about synthetic dataset generation
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Better Synthetic Data by Retrieving and Transforming Existing Datasets
Paper • 2404.14361 • Published • 2 -
Generative AI for Synthetic Data Generation: Methods, Challenges and the Future
Paper • 2403.04190 • Published • 1 -
Best Practices and Lessons Learned on Synthetic Data for Language Models
Paper • 2404.07503 • Published • 32 -
A Multi-Faceted Evaluation Framework for Assessing Synthetic Data Generated by Large Language Models
Paper • 2404.14445 • Published
This collection contains models, datasets and spaces related to historic language models i.e. language models trained on historic data
Datasets suitable for Image Preference Optimization based on their colum names
Text-line and region recognisers, plus detection and recognition pipelines for documents, manga and text in photographs.
OCR for particular languages and writing systems, from whole-page readers to dedicated text-line recognisers.
Recent Hub datasets of video game gameplay (frames/video + actions, replays, trajectories) for imitation learning and game-playing agents.
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davanstrien/reasoning-required
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 106 • 20 -
davanstrien/ModernBERT-based-Reasoning-Required
Text Classification • 0.1B • Updated • 15 • 11 -
davanstrien/fineweb-with-reasoning-scores-and-topics
Viewer • Updated • 10k • 36 • 2 -
davanstrien/fine-reasoning-questions
Viewer • Updated • 244 • 66 • 19
Maths reasoning datasets found using https://huggingface.co/spaces/librarian-bots/huggingface-datasets-semantic-search
Example of using distilabel to generate synthetic triplets data for fine-tuning a Sentence Transformer model
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bigcode/self-oss-instruct-sc2-exec-filter-50k
Viewer • Updated • 50.7k • 33.9k • 107 -
davanstrien/similarity-dataset-sc2-8b
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davanstrien/code-prompt-similarity-model
Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated • 89 • 6 -
davanstrien/abstract-wiki
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 16 • 2
🌸 This is a collection of synthetic datasets built to help improve the ability of open language models to better write haikus through the use of DPO
A collection of datasets that probably support DPO
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.
Text-line and region recognisers, plus detection and recognition pipelines for documents, manga and text in photographs.
Handwriting, historical print and manuscript recognition. Notes on languages, text-line segmentation and transcription conventions.
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Riksarkivet/trocr-base-handwritten-hist-swe-2
Image-to-Text • 0.4B • Updated • 89.9k • 17 -
BDRC/tibetan-ocr
Image-Text-to-Text • 0.8B • Updated • 227 • 3 -
isaacmg/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v19a-ckpt
Image-Text-to-Text • Updated • 44 -
magistermilitum/tridis_v2_HTR_historical_manuscripts
0.6B • Updated • 308 • 7
OCR for particular languages and writing systems, from whole-page readers to dedicated text-line recognisers.
Roughly ordered by recent releases, useful updates and current usage. Practical OCR and document parsing models. Reviewed September 2026.
Recent Hub datasets of video game gameplay (frames/video + actions, replays, trajectories) for imitation learning and game-playing agents.
The reasoning datasets that defined 2025. Part 1 of Datasets Wrapped 2025. #DatasetsWrapped2025
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davanstrien/reasoning-required
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 106 • 20 -
davanstrien/ModernBERT-based-Reasoning-Required
Text Classification • 0.1B • Updated • 15 • 11 -
davanstrien/fineweb-with-reasoning-scores-and-topics
Viewer • Updated • 10k • 36 • 2 -
davanstrien/fine-reasoning-questions
Viewer • Updated • 244 • 66 • 19
Creating a smol model for tl;dr-ing the hub
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davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr
Text Generation • 0.4B • Updated • 67 • 11 -
Semantic Hugging Face Hub Search
🔎93Search Hugging Face datasets and models by meaning
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davanstrien/hub-tldr-dataset-summaries-llama
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 33 • 1 -
davanstrien/hub-tldr-model-summaries-llama
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 27 • 1
Maths reasoning datasets found using https://huggingface.co/spaces/librarian-bots/huggingface-datasets-semantic-search
A collection of demos for various approaches to synthetic data generation
Example of using distilabel to generate synthetic triplets data for fine-tuning a Sentence Transformer model
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bigcode/self-oss-instruct-sc2-exec-filter-50k
Viewer • Updated • 50.7k • 33.9k • 107 -
davanstrien/similarity-dataset-sc2-8b
Viewer • Updated • 2.32k • 49 • 6 -
davanstrien/code-prompt-similarity-model
Sentence Similarity • 0.1B • Updated • 89 • 6 -
davanstrien/abstract-wiki
Viewer • Updated • 5k • 16 • 2
Papers about synthetic dataset generation
-
Better Synthetic Data by Retrieving and Transforming Existing Datasets
Paper • 2404.14361 • Published • 2 -
Generative AI for Synthetic Data Generation: Methods, Challenges and the Future
Paper • 2403.04190 • Published • 1 -
Best Practices and Lessons Learned on Synthetic Data for Language Models
Paper • 2404.07503 • Published • 32 -
A Multi-Faceted Evaluation Framework for Assessing Synthetic Data Generated by Large Language Models
Paper • 2404.14445 • Published
🌸 This is a collection of synthetic datasets built to help improve the ability of open language models to better write haikus through the use of DPO
This collection contains models, datasets and spaces related to historic language models i.e. language models trained on historic data
A collection of datasets that probably support DPO
Datasets suitable for Image Preference Optimization based on their colum names