NewsEye / READ OCR training dataset from Austrian Newspapers (19th C.)

The dataset comprises Austrian newspaper pages from 19th and early 20th century with carefully corrected text. The page images were provided by the Austrian National Library and comprise 148 pages (training set) and 13 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.