The IAM Handwriting Database contains forms of handwritten English text which can be used to train and test handwritten text recognizers and to perform writer identification and verification experiments.

During research of HTR task we faced some difficulties with comparing results using IAM database. After some investigations we untangled the thread and discovered that some authors of papers compared results using different distributions. So we would like to share found splittings of IAM database.

If you have found any paper/work with these splittings of IAM, we are glad to see issues with links on work for adding information in this section. Thank you :)

• Mark Potanin
• Alex Shonenkov
• Maxim Novopoltsev
• Denis Dimitrov
• Denis Karachev

Thanks a lot Théodore Bluche for publishing this resource with IAM-B splitting and Joan Puigcerver for publishing IAM-A splitting here. Also we would like to express our gratefulness for authors that opened this problem in paper.