On requestPhotos· Southeast Asia

Vietnamese Scene Text Image Dataset for OCR

Real shop signs, menus, banners and street notices in Vietnamese, full of diacritics, mixed fonts and imperfect lighting.

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On request: this dataset is produced to your specification after you order. Typically 1–2 weeks for 500 images and 3–5 weeks for 2,000; transcriptions add time.

Pricing

Fixed prices for standard packages, produced to your spec. Pick a package and a license to see the exact total, or ask for a custom quote.

Packages compared
Feature	Starter	Pro	Custom
images	500	2,000	Any quantity
What's included	500 full-resolution images metadata.jsonl with device, exposure and topic labels Datasheet, license and checksums	2,000 full-resolution images Everything in Starter Human-written English caption per image	Your quantity, annotations and deadline
Datasheet, license, checksums	Included	Included	Included
Research license	$490$0.98 / image	$1,490$0.75 / image	Quote
Commercial license	$1,250$2.50 / image	$3,900$1.95 / image	Quote
Exclusive license	$4,900$9.80 / image	$14,900$7.45 / image	Quote

How ordering works

1Choose a package and license and place your order. No payment is taken online.
2Within 48 hours our team contacts you to confirm the spec and invoices a 50% deposit.
3We produce and deliver in parts so you can review early. Typically 1–2 weeks for 500 images and 3–5 weeks for 2,000; transcriptions add time.
4Pay the balance and download the final dataset.

Custom quote

Need another quantity, an Enterprise license or annotations for this dataset? Available here:

Topic labels
Full-image transcriptions
Word-level boxes with transcription

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1. Choose a package

Starter · 500 imagesImages, metadata and topic labelsPro · 2,000 imagesAdds a human-written caption for every image

2. Choose a license

ResearchAcademic and personal, non-commercial use$490CommercialTrain and ship commercial models$1,250ExclusiveThe data produced for you is never licensed to anyone else$4,900

500 full-resolution images
metadata.jsonl with device, exposure and topic labels
Datasheet, license and checksums
Train, fine-tune and evaluate models
Deploy trained models commercially
Keep your models if the license ends

Price per image: $2.50
Deposit, invoiced after you order (50%): $625
Balance on final delivery: $625
Delivery: Typically 1–2 weeks for 500 images and 3–5 weeks for 2,000; transcriptions add time
Total: $1,250

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No payment now: place your order and within 48 hours our team confirms the spec and invoices the deposit. Fully refundable if we cannot deliver the agreed spec.

Overview

Vietnamese uses the Latin alphabet with stacked diacritics, so a single character can carry two marks. OCR models trained mostly on English text routinely drop or confuse these marks, especially on hand-painted signs, curved banners and low-light menus.

This dataset contains photos of Vietnamese text as it appears in daily life: storefront signs, restaurant menus, price boards, banners, notices and packaging, photographed at natural angles with real-world blur, glare and occlusion.

Sample photos

Real photos from this topic, shown at reduced resolution. Full-resolution samples are emailed on request.

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Technical specifications

Capture device: Modern smartphones (device model recorded per image in EXIF)
File format: JPEG (original HEIC/RAW on request)
Resolution: Native sensor resolution, typically 12 MP or higher
Text types: Shop signs, menus, price boards, banners, notices, packaging
Language: Vietnamese, with some mixed Vietnamese–English text
Metadata: metadata.jsonl with device, exposure, timestamp, dimensions, topic labels
Privacy processing: Faces and license plates blurred, GPS removed
License: Research, Commercial, Enterprise or Exclusive

Use cases

Scene text recognition
Fine-tune OCR and text-spotting models (PaddleOCR, TrOCR, docTR) to read Vietnamese diacritics accurately.
Multilingual VLM evaluation
Benchmark how well vision-language models read and translate Vietnamese text in natural images.
Translation & accessibility apps
Train camera-translation and screen-reader features for travellers and visually impaired users.
Retail & mapping
Extract business names and categories from storefront imagery for maps and local search.

How this data is made

1Captured on a smartphone by a person
2Duplicates and near-duplicates removed
3Blurry and broken images filtered out
4Faces and license plates detected and blurred
5Every image reviewed by a person
6GPS stripped; device EXIF kept
7Labels, captions and metadata.jsonl generated
8Datasheet and license packaged with the delivery

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Provenance & legal

100% made by people: no scraping, no generative AI
Datasheet documenting how the data was made, checked and its limitations
Commercial license that lets you keep models trained on the data
Supports training-data documentation under the EU AI Act

Licensing options

Dataset-specific notes

Phone numbers and personal names on signs can be blurred on request; business names are kept.
Bystanders' faces are blurred and children are excluded.
Text transcriptions are written by native speakers of the language.

Example metadata record

One line of metadata.jsonl per image. Fields vary with the annotation options you choose; values shown are illustrative.

{
  "id": "vst-000318",
  "file": "images/vst-000318.jpg",
  "topic": "scene-text",
  "width": 4000,
  "device": {
    "make": "Samsung",
    "model": "Galaxy S24"
  },
  "height": 3000,
  "region": "Southeast Asia",
  "privacy": {
    "gps_removed": true,
    "faces_blurred": 0,
    "phone_numbers_blurred": 1
  },
  "text_type": "menu",
  "captured_at": "2026-09-20T19:44:02+07:00",
  "transcription": "PHỞ BÒ TÁI 45.000đ | PHỞ GÀ 40.000đ | BÚN CHẢ 50.000đ"
}

Each delivery contains:

vietnamese-scene-text-ocr-v1/
├── images/
├── metadata.jsonl
├── DATASHEET.md
├── LICENSE.pdf
└── checksums.sha256

Frequently asked questions

Are transcriptions included?

Transcriptions are available on request, written by native speakers. Word-level bounding boxes with text can also be quoted.

Can you include handwritten text?

Yes, hand-painted signs and handwritten menus can be collected. Mention this in your request.

Is the text in the images real?

Yes. Every image is a photo of real signage or print. Nothing is rendered or generated.

How does ordering and payment work?

Create a free account and place your order on this page; nothing is charged online. Our team contacts you to confirm the spec and invoices a 50% deposit, with the balance due on final delivery. The deposit is refunded in full if we cannot deliver the agreed spec.

What is the difference between non-exclusive and Exclusive?

With Research or Commercial we may license the images produced for your order to other buyers later. With Exclusive they are never licensed to anyone else or added to our catalog.

Can I order a different quantity or extra annotations?

Yes. Request a custom quote with the quantity, annotations and deadline you need. Prices per record fall as quantity grows.

Why is a bundle so much cheaper per image than a single image?

A bundle is planned and collected as one job, so capture, review and privacy processing cost far less per photo. Single images are priced for buyers who need just a few specific photos.

Need a variation?

Different topics, languages, difficulty, quantity or labels? Describe it and we reply within 48 hours with matching samples and a quote.

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