---
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](#newseye-dataset)
  - [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
  - [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
    - [Languages](#languages)
  - [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
    - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
    - [Data Fields](#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.)](https://zenodo.org/records/3387369)
- **Point of Contact:** [TEKLIA](https://teklia.com)

### 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.