KurdishOldTextsOCR

Year: 2024
Size: 1,203 TIFF images and 1,203 text files in the inspected release
License: Conflicting primary statements: repository says CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; paper says CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Domain: Historical Printed OCR
Languages:
Kurdish (Sorani)
Formats:
TIFF TXT

Resource Description

Ground truth for OCR of historical printed Sorani Kurdish publications. Direct archive inspection found 1,203 TIFF images and 1,203 text files. The associated paper reports 1,233 line images, so the released archive and paper counts should not be treated as identical.

Data Structure

TIFF line images with TXT ground-truth transcriptions.

Primary Publication

Making Old Kurdish Publications Processable by Augmenting Available Optical Character Recognition Engines

Blnd Yaseen , Hossein Hassani (2024)

This 2024 arXiv preprint adapts Tesseract 5 for historical printed Sorani Kurdish publications using transcribed lines from pre-1950 material. The abstract reports 1,233 line images with …

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Dataset Information

Total Size 1,203 TIFF images and 1,203 text files in the inspected release
Languages 1 language
Formats 2 formats
Related Papers 1 publication

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Licensed under Conflicting primary statements: repository says CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; paper says CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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