Published March 5, 2019 | Version v1

Historical Newspapers Ground Truth

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Description

This dataset contains 50 pages of ground truth data for digitized historical newspapers from the Berlin State Library for training and evaluation of OCR/OLR systems as produced in the context of the EU ICT-PSP project Europeana Newspapers (http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/).

The dataset comprises of the following resources:

  • gt_page.zip Ground Truth files in PAGE-XML format (cf. https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML)
  • img_full.zip Full resolution scanned images in TIF format
  • img_bin.zip Binarized (using the Gatos method) images in TIF format
  • ocr_full.zip OCR (FineReaderEngine11) results for full resolution images
  • ocr_bin.zip OCR (FineReaderEngine11) results for binarized images

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gt_page.zip

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