diff --git a/src/eynollah/training/train.py b/src/eynollah/training/train.py
index 62d8e51..da2cbdb 100644
--- a/src/eynollah/training/train.py
+++ b/src/eynollah/training/train.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import sys
 import io
 import json
 import click
+from typing import Optional
 
 from tqdm import tqdm
 import requests
@@ -397,7 +398,7 @@ def run(_config,
         f1_threshold_classification=None,
         classification_classes_name=None,
         ## if task=cnn-rnn-ocr
-        characters_txt_file=None,
+        characters_txt_file: Optional[str]=None,
         color_padding_rotation=False,
         thetha_padd=None,
         bin_deg=False,
@@ -698,6 +699,89 @@ def run(_config,
             callbacks=callbacks,
             initial_epoch=index_start)
 
+    elif task=="transformer-ocr":
+        import torch
+        from torch.utils.data import Dataset as TorchDataset
+        from transformers import TrOCRProcessor, VisionEncoderDecoderModel, Seq2SeqTrainer, Seq2SeqTrainingArguments, default_data_collator
+        dir_img, dir_lab = get_dirs_or_files(dir_train)
+
+        if continue_training:
+            model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained(dir_of_start_model)
+        else:
+            model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained("microsoft/trocr-base-printed")
+            
+        processor = TrOCRProcessor.from_pretrained("microsoft/trocr-base-printed")
+        
+        
+        # Create a DataLoader
+        class TransformerOCRTorchDataset(TorchDataset):
+            """
+            Wraps preprocess_imgs in a format consumable by torch
+            """
+            def __init__(self, config, dir_img, dir_lab, char_to_num):
+                self.samples = list(
+                    preprocess_imgs(
+                        config,
+                        dir_img,
+                        dir_lab,
+                        char_to_num=char_to_num
+                    )
+                )
+
+            def __len__(self):
+                return len(self.samples)
+
+            def __getitem__(self, idx):
+                image, label = self.samples[idx]
+
+                return {
+                    "image": torch.as_tensor(image, dtype=torch.float32),
+                    "label": torch.as_tensor(label, dtype=torch.long),
+                }
+        assert characters_txt_file
+        with open(characters_txt_file, 'r') as char_txt_f:
+            characters = json.load(char_txt_f)
+        char_to_num = StringLookup(vocabulary=list(characters), mask_token=None)
+        dataset = TransformerOCRTorchDataset(_config, dir_img, dir_lab, char_to_num)
+        data_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=1)
+        train_dataset = data_loader.dataset
+            
+        # set special tokens used for creating the decoder_input_ids from the labels
+        model.config.decoder_start_token_id = processor.tokenizer.cls_token_id
+        model.config.pad_token_id = processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id
+        # make sure vocab size is set correctly
+        model.config.vocab_size = model.config.decoder.vocab_size
+
+        # set beam search parameters
+        model.config.eos_token_id = processor.tokenizer.sep_token_id
+        model.config.max_length = max_len
+        model.config.early_stopping = True
+        model.config.no_repeat_ngram_size = 3
+        model.config.length_penalty = 2.0
+        model.config.num_beams = 4
+        
+        
+        training_args = Seq2SeqTrainingArguments(
+            predict_with_generate=True,
+            num_train_epochs=n_epochs,
+            learning_rate=learning_rate,
+            per_device_train_batch_size=n_batch,
+            fp16=True, 
+            output_dir=dir_output,
+            logging_steps=2,
+            save_steps=save_interval,
+        )
+        
+        # instantiate trainer
+        trainer = Seq2SeqTrainer(
+            model=model,
+            tokenizer=processor.feature_extractor,
+            args=training_args,
+            train_dataset=train_dataset,
+            data_collator=default_data_collator,
+        )
+        trainer.train()
+
     elif task=='classification':
         if continue_training:
             model = load_model(dir_of_start_model, compile=False)
diff --git a/train/config_params_trocr.json b/train/config_params_trocr.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34c6376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/train/config_params_trocr.json
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+{
+    "backbone_type" : "transformer",
+    "task": "transformer-ocr",
+    "n_classes" : 2,
+    "max_len": 192,
+    "n_epochs" : 1,
+    "input_height" : 32,
+    "input_width" : 512,
+    "weight_decay" : 1e-6,
+    "n_batch" : 1,
+    "learning_rate": 1e-5,
+    "save_interval": 1500,
+    "patches" : false,
+    "pretraining" : false,
+    "augmentation" : true,
+    "flip_aug" : false,
+    "blur_aug" : true,
+    "scaling" : false,
+    "adding_rgb_background": true,
+    "adding_rgb_foreground": true,
+    "add_red_textlines": true,
+    "white_noise_strap": true,
+    "textline_right_in_depth": true,
+    "textline_left_in_depth": true,
+    "textline_up_in_depth": true,
+    "textline_down_in_depth": true,
+    "textline_right_in_depth_bin": true,
+    "textline_left_in_depth_bin": true,
+    "textline_up_in_depth_bin": true,
+    "textline_down_in_depth_bin": true,
+    "bin_deg": true,
+    "textline_skewing": true,
+    "textline_skewing_bin": true,
+    "channels_shuffling": true,
+    "degrading": true,
+    "brightening": true,
+    "binarization" : true,
+    "pepper_aug": true,
+    "pepper_bin_aug": true,
+    "image_inversion": true,
+    "scaling_bluring" : false,
+    "scaling_binarization" : false,
+    "scaling_flip" : false,
+    "rotation": false,
+    "color_padding_rotation": true,
+    "padding_white": true,
+    "rotation_not_90": true,
+    "transformer_num_patches_xy": [56, 56],
+    "transformer_patchsize_x": 4,
+    "transformer_patchsize_y": 4,
+    "transformer_projection_dim": 64,
+    "transformer_mlp_head_units": [128, 64],
+    "transformer_layers": 1,
+    "transformer_num_heads": 1,
+    "transformer_cnn_first": false,
+    "blur_k" : ["blur","gauss","median"],
+    "padd_colors" : ["white", "black"],
+    "scales" : [0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9],
+    "brightness" : [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2],
+    "degrade_scales" : [0.2, 0.4],
+    "pepper_indexes": [0.01, 0.005],
+    "skewing_amplitudes" : [5, 8],
+    "flip_index" : [0, 1, -1],
+    "shuffle_indexes" : [ [0,2,1], [1,2,0], [1,0,2] , [2,1,0]],
+    "thetha" : [0.1, 0.2, -0.1, -0.2],
+    "thetha_padd": [-0.6, -1, -1.4, -1.8, 0.6, 1, 1.4, 1.8],
+    "white_padds" : [0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9],
+    "number_of_backgrounds_per_image": 2,
+    "continue_training": false,
+    "index_start" : 0,
+    "dir_of_start_model" : " ", 
+    "weighted_loss": false,
+    "is_loss_soft_dice": false,
+    "data_is_provided": false,
+    "dir_train": "/home/vahid/extracted_lines/1919_bin/train",
+    "dir_eval": "/home/vahid/Documents/test/sbb_pixelwise_segmentation/test_label/pageextractor_test/eval_new",
+    "dir_output": "/home/vahid/extracted_lines/1919_bin/output",
+    "dir_rgb_backgrounds": "/home/vahid/Documents/1_2_test_eynollah/set_rgb_background",
+    "dir_rgb_foregrounds": "/home/vahid/Documents/1_2_test_eynollah/out_set_rgb_foreground",
+    "dir_img_bin": "/home/vahid/extracted_lines/1919_bin/images_bin"
+    
+}
diff --git a/train/requirements.txt b/train/requirements.txt
index 090bc50..03994f8 100644
--- a/train/requirements.txt
+++ b/train/requirements.txt
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ tensorflow-addons # for connected_components, depublished and only compatible wi
 tensorflow < 2.16 # for tensorflow-addons, so only needed in training
 tf_data < 2.16 # for tensorflow-addons, so only needed in training
 protobuf < 5 # for tensorflow-addons, so only needed in training
+torch
+transformers <= 4.30.2 ; python_version < '3.10'
+transformers >= 5 ; python_version >= '3.10'