YOLOv8 is the eighth version of the You Only Look Once (YOLO) object detection algorithm. It excels in speed and accuracy, making it an ideal choice for real-time applications. The YOLOv8 model provided here has been fine-tuned on a diverse dataset of handwritten texts to improve its specificity in detecting handwritten content as opposed to typed or printed materials. The final IoU=0.98 The IoU during training