- Description
OCR Ground truth package for Finnish Fraktur.
Package contains 450 page images and ALTO XML files for each page, with the proofreading done by the Finnish native speakers. The pages of fraktur range from the year 1836 until 1910. The package can help in creating own postcorrection algorithms for OCR text recognition.
There is also an Excel file for all of the 471 903 words, which contains result given to the word by Tesseract and FineReader. If a tool hasn't found corresponding word, then the given cell is empty, so select the words in the Excel, which you need.
- User interface
- Data downloads
- http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/opendata
- API
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- License
- Terms of use (in Finnish).
- Content type
- Pageimages, ALTO XML, metadata
- Language
- Finnish
- Data status
- Primary source
- Size
- 450 pages
- Update frequency
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- Relationships
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- External information
- Article: Re-OCR in Action – Using Tesseract to Re-OCR Finnish Fraktur from 19th and Early 20th Century Newspapers and Journals (PDF file)
- Acknowledgements
Digitalia project (http://blogs.helsinki.fi/digitalia/)
- Contact information
- [email protected]
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