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# OCR training data from AIDA-project |
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### Dataset Summary |
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The zip file contains textlines and their annotations from AIDA-project. There are ~ 166k textlines that are mainly in Finnish language, but contain a little Swedish and |
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English and little French and German textlines. The textlines contains typewritten and also handwritten lines. Roughly 24 % of the annotated lines are handwritten and the rest are |
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typewritten. The dataset also contains 120 000 synthetic images. |
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### Supported Tasks |
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The dataset was created mainly for text recognition task. |
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### Languages |
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The majority of the textlines are in Finnish, but some are in Swedish and English. In addition to this there are few French and German textlines. |
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## Dataset structure |
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### Data Instances |
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The zip file contains two folders. Folder called text_lines contains all the text lines. The other folder called annotations contain the annotations in PaddleOCR format. |
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The annotations are divided into train, validation and test sets. In addition to this, the annotations are divided into handwritten, typewritten and ship, which contains |
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annotations of ship records that are mainly handwritten. Handwritten and typewritten annotations are also divided into "best" and "semi" files. "Best" means that the annotator has |
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understood every letter in the line as "semi" means that some character are not understood. |
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### Data Fields |
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PaddleOCR format means that the annotations are saved into a txt file containing multiple annotations. One annotations is placed per line in the file. First, the format |
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contains a path to an image, then a separating "\t" character and then the transcription. An example of the format is shown below. |
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``` |
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/path/to/0001.jpg\tHello World |
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/path/to/0002.jpg\tThis is PaddleOCR format. |
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... |
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``` |
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### Data Splits |
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Below is how the annotated data is split. The number in parantheses shows the amount of "semi" textlines. |
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| Dataset Split | Typewritten | Handwritten | Ship Registry | |
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| Train | 22253 (248) | 6943 (424) | 3796 | |
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| Validation | 4744 (9) | 1151 (25) | 469 | |
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| Test | 4272 (3) | 1270 (16) | 472 | |
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## Dataset Creation |
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### Source Data |
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The data is collected from Central Archives for Finnish Business (ELKA). It consists of various document types including letters, ship records, business publications etc. It |
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includes correspondence between companies, organizations and the public. |
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### Who are the source language producers? |
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Given the various types of archival material used in annotation, the scope of producers of the original texts is broad. It includes private individuals and employees of |
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different companies. |
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### Annotations |
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The textlines were first cropped out of the original image and then transcribed. If the transcription was unclear, the annotator marked it as either "somewhat unclear" or |
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"unclear". Unclear images were discarded, but the "somewhat discarded" images are presented here as in the "semi" annotation files. The rough estimate for "somewhat |
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unclear" class is that less than 100% and more than 50% of the characters are unclear. |
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### Who are the annotators? |
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Annotators were employees of National Archives of Finland and ELKA. |
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### Personal and Sensitive Information |
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The dataset is not anonymized, so individuals' names can be found in the dataset. |
