NewsEye / READ OCR training dataset from French Newspapers (18th, 19th, early 20th C.)

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Dataset information

Catalog

Zenodo catalog

Country of origin

EU institutions

Updated

2021.03.12 00:00

Created

2020.01.01

Available languages

English

Keywords

OCR, Text Recognition, Transkribus

Datasource

Official portal for European data link

Quality scoring

Dataset description

The dataset comprises French newspaper pages from 18th, 19th and early 20th century with carefully corrected text. The page images were provided by the French National Library and comprise 127 pages (training set) and 8 pages (validation set). The data are formed according to the PAGE format (cf. Cf. https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML/) and were produced with the Transkribus platform with support of the NewsEye and the READ project.

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