README.md

metadata

license: mit
language:
  - de
task_categories:
  - image-to-text
pretty_name: NewsEye Austrian
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: image
      dtype: image
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 51588
    - name: validation
      num_examples: 4379
  dataset_size: 55967

NewsEye Dataset

Table of Contents

• NewsEye Dataset
  • Table of Contents
  • Dataset Description
    • Languages
  • Dataset Structure
    • Data Instances
    • Data Fields

Dataset Description

The dataset comprises Austrian newspaper pages from 19th and early 20th century. The images were provided by the Austrian National Library.

• Homepage: NewsEye / READ OCR training dataset from Austrian Newspapers (19th C.)
• Point of Contact: TEKLIA

Languages

The documents are in Austrian German with the Fraktur font.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=4300x128 at 0x1A800E8E190,
  'text': 'Mann; und als wir uns zum Angriff stark genug'
}

Data Fields

• image: A PIL.Image.Image object containing the image. Note that when accessing the image column: dataset[0]["image"] the image file is automatically decoded. Decoding of a large number of image files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "image" column, i.e. dataset[0]["image"] should always be preferred over dataset["image"][0].
• text: the label transcription of the image.