MoDeTrans: Modi to Devanagari Script Transliteration Dataset

A dataset introduced in a 2025 paper titled 'Historic Scripts to Modern Vision: A Novel Dataset and A VLM Framework for Transliteration of Modi Script to Devanagari'. It supports research in transliterating the ancient Modi script of Maharashtra into the modern Devanagari script used for Marathi and other languages. The dataset was created by author historyHulk and last updated on Hugging Face in September 2025.

Use Cases

• Training vision-language models for script transliteration based on the multimodal nature described.
• Developing OCR systems for historical Modi documents based on the described image modality.
• Benchmarking transliteration algorithms between Indian scripts based on the described task.
• Studying the evolution of writing systems in Maharashtra based on the historical context provided.

Strengths

• Dataset is explicitly linked to a published research paper, providing academic context.
• Platform tags indicate it contains both image and text modalities, supporting multimodal research.
• Last update was recorded on 2025-09-28, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count, file size, and column definitions are unknown, which limits suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset description is brief; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

huggingface.co/datasets/historyHulk/MoDeTrans

Collection Method

Method of data gathering is not specified in the provided description.

Time Range

Temporal coverage of the source documents is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-09-28 07:23:35.

Geography

Likely focuses on the Maharashtra region of India, given the historical use of the Modi script there.