Finnish migration records 1800–1920 (htr annotation source images)

Source images for the manually annotated HTR dataset of Finnish migration records. The corresponding annotation files can be obtained from https://github.com/TurkuNLP/htr-annotations.

See https://github.com/TurkuNLP/finnish-migration-data for more information about the project.

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LICENSE

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