metadata
license: cc0-1.0
Dataset description
33.000 transcribed text lines from historical newspapers (before 1878) along with the cropped images of the original scans
Text line based OCR 19.000 text lines in Antiqua 14.000 text lines in Fraktur Transcribed using double-keying (99.95% accuracy) Public Domain, CC0 (See copyright notice) Best for training an OCR engine
The newspapers used are:
- Le Gratis luxembourgeois (1857-1858)
- Luxemburger Volks-Freund (1869-1876)
- L'Arlequin (1848-1848)
- Courrier du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1844-1868)
- L'Avenir (1868-1871)
- Der Wächter an der Sauer (1849-1869)
- Luxemburger Zeitung (1844-1845)
- Luxemburger Zeitung = Journal de Luxembourg (1858-1859)
- Der Volksfreund (1848-1849)
- Cäcilia (1862-1871)
- Kirchlicher Anzeiger für die Diözese Luxemburg (1871-1878)
- L'Indépendance luxembourgeoise (1871-1878)
- Luxemburger Anzeiger (1856)
- L'Union (1860-1871)
- Diekircher Wochenblatt (1837-1848)
- Das Vaterland (1869-1870)
- D'Wäschfra (1868-1878)
- Luxemburger Bauernzeitung (1857)
- Luxemburger Wort (1848-1878)
URL for this dataset
https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/
Dataset format
Two JSONL files (antiqua.jsonl.gz and fraktur.jsonl.gz) with the follwing fields:
fontis either antiqua or frakturimgis the filename of the associated image for the texttextis the handcorrected double-keyed text transcribed from the image
Sample:
{
"font": "fraktur",
"img": "fraktur-000011.png",
"text": "Vidal die Vollmacht für Paris an. Auch"
}
In addition there are two .zip files with the associated images
Dataset modality
Text and associated Images from Scans
Dataset licence
Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication and Certification
size of dataset
500MB-2GB