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Datasets
We have collected, ground-truthed and organised a number of datasets which are available for research and/or personal use.
IMPACT Digitisation Centre of Competence Dataset
The dataset, part of the IMPACT Centre of Competence in Digitisation (digitisation.eu), contains more than half a million representative text-based images compiled by a number of major European libraries. Covering texts from as early as 1500, and containing material from newspapers, books, pamphlets and typewritten notes, the dataset is an invaluable resource for future research into imaging technology, OCR and language enrichment.
Layout Analysis Dataset A realistic contemporary document dataset.
This dataset has been created primarily for the evaluation of layout analysis (physical and logical) methods. It contains realistic documents with a wide variety of layouts, reflecting the various challenges in layout analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on magazines and technical/scientific publications which are likely to be the focus of digitisation efforts. Each image in the dataset has associated comprehensive and detailed ground truth enabling in-depth evaluation.
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera Cards from the UK's Natural History Museum lepidoptera index.
This dataset contains contains scans of index cards from the UK's Natural History Museum lepidoptera index. The text is typewritten with handwritten annotations.
Europeana Newspapers Project Dataset Newspapers from Europe's major libraries
This online repository is the main point of reference for all activities related to evaluation within the scope of the Europeana Newspapers project. Its main goal is to provide a representative collection of all the types of newspapers which are and/or might be subject of ongoing or future digitisation activities. As such, it is hosting scanned images, metadata and ground truth (a representation of the ideal result of a processing step like OCR or layout analysis) on the level of individual newspaper pages.
Census 1961 Project Dataset Example images from the Census 1961 digitisation project
Images containing tables from the 1961 Census for England and Wales. The images are a subset of the whole collection. They were used in a digitisation feasibility study between 2015 and 2017.
IMPACT Project Dataset Historical Books and Newspapers from Europe's major libraries
The purpose of these images is to serve as examples of conditions to be addressed in the TR and EE subprojects. These conditions relate to image artefacts (inherent in the document as well as introduced during image capture), layout and fonts/language.
RASM2018 ICFHR2018 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts - RASM2018
This dataset consists of 10 example images with ground truth and 85 evaluation images. These were made available to participants of the ICFHR2018 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts.
RDCL2019 ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts - RDCL2019
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
REID2019 ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian printed Documents - REID2019
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2019 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian printed Documents, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
RDCL2017 ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts - RDCL2017
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
REID2017 ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian printed Documents - REID2017
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian printed Documents, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
RDCL2015 ICDAR2015 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2015 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
HNLA2013 ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Newspaper Layout Analysis
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Newspaper Layout Analysis, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
HBR2013 ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Book Recognition
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Book Recognition, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
HDLAC2011 ICDAR2011 Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition
This is the example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2011 Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition, as it was made available to the participants of the competition.
Dataset for paper Efficient and Effective OCR Engine Training
Dataset for paper Efficient and Effective OCR Engine Training. Please create a user account to download. See copyright information inside the ZIP file.