KSTRV1: A scene text recognition dataset for central Kurdish in (Arabic-Based) script
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Data in Brief
Vol. 60
pp. 111648
May 1, 2025
Abstract
This Data in Brief article introduces a scene-text dataset covering Kurdish Sorani and Badini in Arabic-based script alongside Arabic and English. It reports 1,420 natural scene images, 19,872 real word samples and 20,000 synthetic instances across the multilingual collection. The original KSTRV1 files were later deprecated; KSTRV2 provides the corrected public release.
Keywords
Scene Text
Kurdish
Sorani
Badini
OCR
Related Datasets
KSTRV2
2025
1,420 scene images, 19,872 real word samples and 20,000 synthetic instances reported for the multilingual collection
JPEG, TXT
Corrected public release of the Kurdish scene-text recognition resource associated with KSTRV1. The multilingual collection covers Sorani and Badini in Arabic-based Kurdish script alongside Arabic and …
Citation
Salih, S. O., & Jacksi, K. (2025). KSTRV1: A scene text recognition dataset for central Kurdish in (Arabic-Based) script. Data in Brief, 60, 111648.