Resources containing OCR benchmark test-sets for free : <p>I want to do an OCR benchmark for scanned text (typically any scan, i.e. A4). I was able to find some NEOCR datasets <a href="http://datasets.visionbib.com/" rel="noreferrer">here</a>, but NEOCR is not really what I want.</p>

<p>I would appreciate links to sources of free databases that have appropriate images and the actual texts (contained in the images) referenced.</p>

<p>I hope this thread will also be useful for other people doing OCR surfing for datasets, since I didn't find any good reference to such sources.</p>

<p>Thanks! </p>
