REID2017


Example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2017 Competition on Recognition of Early Indian printed Documents

HNLA2013


Example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Newspaper Layout Analysis

HBR2013


Example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2013 Competition on Historical Book Recognition.

HDLAC2011


Example and evaluation dataset used for the ICDAR2011 Historical Document Layout Analysis Competition.

BVMC Linked Open Data


The catalogue of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes contains about 200,000 records which were originally created in compliance with the MARC21 standard.

GT4HistOCR: Ground Truth for training OCR engines on historical documents in German Fraktur and Early Modern Latin


GT4HistOCR contains ground truth for research in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology applied to historical printings in German Fraktur and Early Modern Latin.

CIS OCR Workshop v1.0: OCR and postcorrection of early printings for digital humanities


The 2-day CIS OCR Workshop on "OCR and postcorrection of early printings for digital humanities" originally held at LMU, Munich 14/15 September 2015 (see http://www.cis.lmu.de/ocrworkshop).

Mining Biodiversity – MiBio OCR Dataset