IGN Test Data for ICDAR'25 MapText Competition

Data set of 2Kx2K image tiles cropped from Napoleonic Cadastre maps of the Val de Marne Archive for the ICDAR'25 Competition on Historical Map Text Detection, Recognition, and Linking. Annotations and images follow the format described at the competition website and can be evaluated using the official evaluation repository script. Test Annotations N/A Images test.zip Files ign25/test/*.jpg Tiles 144 Map Sheets 77 The allowed characters set contains the following items (words should not contain spaces, # has a special meaning which indicates an unreadable character and should not be used in predictions):abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzàâçéèêëîïôùûüœÿABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÀÂÇÉÈÊËÎÏÔÙÛÜŒŸ0123456789'.,-+/*()&=# Please note that the ground truth for this dataset is kept private until further notice to enable post-competition submissions to the online platform. Original images available at https://archives.valdemarne.fr/recherches/archives-en-ligne/cadastre-napoleonien as of Jan., 9th 2025.