README.md

metadata

license: mit
language:
  - nb
task_categories:
  - image-to-text
pretty_name: NorHand v1
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: image
      dtype: image
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 19653
    - name: validation
      num_examples: 2286
    - name: test
      num_examples: 1793
  dataset_size: 23732

NorHand v1 Dataset

Table of Contents

• NorHand v1 Dataset
  • Table of Contents
  • Dataset Description
    • Languages
  • Dataset Structure
    • Data Instances
    • Data Fields

Dataset Description

• Homepage: Hugin-Munin project
• Source: Zenodo
• Paper: A Comprehensive Comparison of Open-Source Libraries for Handwritten Text Recognition in Norwegian
• Point of Contact: TEKLIA

Dataset Summary

The NorHand v1 dataset comprises Norwegian letter and diary line images and text from 19th and early 20th century.

Languages

All the documents in the dataset are written in Norwegian Bokmål.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=4300x128 at 0x1A800E8E190,
  'text': 'fredag 1923'
}

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.