IMPACT Language Resources


A collection of historical and named-entity lexica for Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Slovene, Spanish and Latin.

IMPACT Ground Truth and Image Dataset


More than half a million representative text-based images compiled by a number of major European libraries.

Dataset of ICDAR 2019 Competition on Post-OCR Text Correction


The corpus accounts for 22M OCRed characters along with the corresponding Gold Standard (GS).

Abraham, Belgian Newspaper Catalogue


Abraham. Belgian newspaper catalogue is the catalogue of Belgian newspapers published since 1800.

Layout Analysis Dataset


This dataset has been created primarily for the evaluation of layout analysis (physical and logical) methods.

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera


This dataset contains contains scans of index cards from the UK's Natural History Museum lepidoptera index

Europeana Newspapers


This online repository is the main point of reference for all activities related to evaluation within the scope of the Europeana Newspapers project.

Census 1961 Project Dataset


Images containing tables from the 1961 Census for England and Wales.

RASM2018


Example and evaluation dataset used for the ICFHR2018 Competition on Recognition of Historical Arabic Scientific Manuscripts.

RDCL2017


Example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Documents with Complex Layouts