Training German Newspapers

Training of kraken model for German handwriting

Ground Truth

Reichsanzeiger Ground truth for German newspaper "Deutscher Reichsanzeiger und Preußischer Staatsanzeiger" (1819–1945)
Dataset: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/reichsanzeiger-gt

AustrianNewspapers NewsEye / READ OCR training dataset from Austrian Newspapers (1864–1911)
Dataset: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/AustrianNewspapers/

Neue Zürcher Zeitung Ground truth for swiss newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" (1780–1947)
Dataset: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/NZZ-black-letter-ground-truth

Hakenkreuzbanner Ground truth for a political newspaper of the Mannheim region (1931–1945)
Dataset: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/hkb-gt

Preparing data for training

git clone https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/reichsanzeiger-gt
git clone https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/AustrianNewspapers/
git clone https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/NZZ-black-letter-ground-truth
git clone https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/hkb-gt

Training with basemodel

Download basemodel german_print

wget https://ub-backup.bib.uni-mannheim.de/~stweil/tesstrain/kraken/german_print/german_print_best.mlmodel