GenAuto TD Corpus

Description

Ground Truth dataset for French handwritten pages of Civil Registry "Tables Décennales"

Content

150 images and Alto XML files divided into 3 sub-corpus.

Only first names, last names and dates are transcribed and only for birth sections of the documents.

The Alto files contain:

• Segmentation of the transcribed texts.
• Transcription of the texts.
• Polygonalization of the transcribed text zones (performed by kraken OCR solution).

#	name	nb of images	GT for segmenter?	GT for recognizer?	link(s) to source images
1	sermaises	(69)	y	y	Archives départementales du Loiret (Sermaises)
2	rom-1883-1892	(41)	y	y	Archives départementales de l'Aube (Romilly-sur-Seine)
3	rom-1893-1902	(40)	y	y	Archives départementales de l'Aube (Romilly-sur-Seine)

Annotation system

Portions of text that are superscripted are preceded with ^ such as "1^er" will be transcribed as "1^er". If several words are superscripted, each word starts with a "^".

How to cite

This dataset was built by Jean-François Boutet and Jean-Pierre Merx.

The original works and their digitization are all copyright-free, but properly annotating a corpus takes time and is a task that should be recognized. If you use any item from this corpus of ground truth, cite the dataset using the following information:

title : 'GenAuto TD Corpus'
url: 'https://github.com/jpmjpmjpm/genauto-td-htr.git'
project-name: 'GenAuto'
project-website: ''
authors:
    - name: 'Boutet'
      surname: 'Jean-François'
      roles:
      - 'transcriber'
      - 'aligner'
    - name: 'Merx'
      surname: 'Jean-Pierre'
      roles:
      - 'transcriber'
      - 'aligner'
      - 'project-manager'
description: '150 transcribed images from "Tables Décennales" French Civil Registry.
Those come from Sermaises and Romilly-sur-Seine municipalities. '
language: 'French'
#other-languages:
#    - "Optional"
script: 'Latin'
script-type: 'only-manuscript'
time: 1792--1902
hands: 
    - count: 'less-than-11'
      precision: 'estimated'
license:
    - {name: 'CC-BY 4.0', url: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'}
format: 'Alto-XML'
volume:
    - {count: "300", metric: "pages"}
    - {count: "150, metric: "images"}

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