WATERec: WordArt-Oriented Scene Text Recognition

Recognize text from artistic / stylized / WordArt images using the WATERec model (90.40% on WordArt-Bench, ECCV 2026). Demo built by Apolinário (@apolinario) 🤝 Hugging Face. Thanks for bringing WATERec to life on Spaces!

Upload a cropped word/line image and get the recognized text.