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-# SPAN
+# SPAN: a Simple Predict & Align Network forHandwritten Paragraph Recognition
 
+This repository contains trained model weigths from the paper "SPAN: a Simple Predict & Align Network forHandwritten Paragraph Recognition".
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+Code: https://github.com/FactoDeepLearning/SPAN
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