Dataset

This original corpus consist in OCRed documents from 10 European languages with about 20M characters (3.5M tokens) aligned with their corresponding Gold Standard (Ground-Truth). Each language contain one or several sub-folders (unbalanced) according to collected dataset sources as follows:

Each training file contain three blocs according to the following structure. Note that only the first block [OCR_output] will be included in the test set.

Download links

ZIP: ICDAR2019_POCR_competition_dataset.zip

Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/record/3515403

TC-11: http://tc11.cvc.uab.es/datasets/Post-OCR_2019_1

References

• IMPACT, European Commission’s 7th Framework Program, grant agreement 215064
• Uwe Springmann, Christian Reul, Stefanie Dipper, Johannes Baiter (2018). Ground Truth for training OCR engines on historical documents in German Fraktur and Early Modern Latin.
• https://digi.nationallibrary.fi , Wiipuri, 31.12.1904, Digital Collections of National Library of Finland
• EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No 770299

Origins and copyrights related to every text are detailed in the full version of the dataset.