Historical Newspapers Ground Truth

This dataset contains 50 pages of ground truth data for digitized historical newspapers from the Berlin State Library for training and evaluation of OCR/OLR systems as produced in the context of the EU ICT-PSP project Europeana Newspapers (http://www.europeana-newspapers.eu/).

The dataset comprises of the following resources:

<strong>gt_page.zip </strong>Ground Truth files in PAGE-XML format (cf. https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML)
<strong>img_full.zip </strong>Full resolution scanned images in TIF format
<strong>img_bin.zip</strong> Binarized (using the Gatos method) images in TIF format
<strong>ocr_full.zip</strong> OCR (FineReaderEngine11) results for full resolution images
<strong>ocr_bin.zip</strong> OCR (FineReaderEngine11) results for binarized images