The Belfort dataset: Handwritten Text Recognition from Crowdsourced Annotations

This dataset includes minutes of Belfort municipal council drawn up between 1790 and 1946. Documents include deliberations, lists of councillors, convocations, and agendas.

The dataset includes 24,105 text-line images that were automatically detected from pages. Up to 4 transcriptions are available for each line image: two from humans, and two from automatic models.

We would like to thank the Archives municipales de la ville de Belfort, France for giving us access to these documents.