---
language: he
tags:
  - hebrew
  - ocr
  - pos-tagging
  - historical-newspapers
  - ha-tsfira
license: mit
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language_creators:
  - found
annotations_creators:
  - machine-generated
source_datasets:
  - original
pretty_name: Ha-Tsfira OCR and POS-Tagged Dataset
---

# Ha-Tsfira OCR and POS-Tagged Dataset

## Dataset Description

- **Repository:** https://huggingface.co/datasets/mbole/hebrew-tzfira-dataset
- **Code and Tools:** https://github.com/m-bole/hebrew_newspaper_processor
- **Point of Contact:** Maria Bolek (maria.bolek@uw.edu.pl)

### Dataset Summary

This dataset contains OCR-processed and POS-tagged text from Ha-Tsfira (הצפירה), a Hebrew-language newspaper published in Poland from 1862 and then from 1874 to 1931. The dataset includes 50 newspaper issues that have been digitized, cleaned, and linguistically annotated.

### Languages

Hebrew (he)

### Dataset Structure

```python
DatasetDict({
    train: Dataset({
        features: ['id', 'ocr_text', 'cleaned_text', 'pos_tagged'],
        num_rows: 50
    })
})
```

### Data Fields:

- id: String identifier (newspaper issue date)
- ocr_text: Raw OCR output
- cleaned_text: Normalized and cleaned text
- pos_tagged: Text with part-of-speech tags

### Dataset Size:

- Total size: 15.2 MB
- Download size: 6.7 MB
- Number of examples: 50


### Data Collection and Preprocessing

- Source: National Library of Israel digital archives (https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/hzf)
- OCR: Tesseract OCR with Hebrew language support
- POS Tagging: Stanza Hebrew model
- Processing Steps:
1. PDF page splitting into columns
2. OCR using Tesseract
3. Text cleaning and normalization
4. POS tagging

## Code and Tools
The code used to create this dataset is available on GitHub:
[Hebrew Newspaper OCR and POS Tagging Processor](https://github.com/m-bole/hebrew_newspaper_processor)

Features include:
- Automatic page splitting
- Hebrew OCR processing
- Text cleaning
- POS tagging
- Batch processing support

See the GitHub repository for installation and usage instructions.

### Citation
bibtexCopy@misc{bolek2025hatzfira,
    title={OCR and Corpus Analysis of Ha-Tsfira Hebrew Newspaper},
    author={Maria Bolek},
    year={2025},
    publisher={University of Warsaw},
    howpublished={https://huggingface.co/datasets/mbole/hebrew-tzfira-dataset}
}

### Licensing Information
MIT License