Tibetan Modern U-chen Print 0.1 (TMUP 0.1) is the first Transkribus HTR model for printed Tibetan language publications in Uchen (དབུ་ཅན་ dbu can) script. It has been trained on texts that were published in the PRC between the 1950s and 1980s. The model was trained on 522 pages in 20 documents. The training set consists of 470 pages; the validation set consists of 52 (10%) automatically selected pages. No base model was used. The model was developed by Franz Xaver Erhard (Leipzig University) and Xiaoying 笑影 (Leipzig University) for the Divergent Discourses project (DFG/AHRC).
The model is publicly available within the Transkribus environment. You can view and test the model at
Details on the model and the Ground Truth of the training set can be viewed on the Transkribus-Site of the Divergent Discourses project:
The training set to the model – consisting of the image files (jpg) and the corresponding Transkribus pageXML files – is available for download from:
Erhard, Franz Xaver, Xiaoying 笑影, Barnett, Robert, Hill, Nathan W., 2024. Tibetan Modern U-chen Print (TMUP) 0.1: Training Data for a Transkribus HTR Model for Modern Tibetan Printed Texts. https://doi.org/10.48796/20240313-0000352