Handwriting-GT ✍️

A collection of handwritten ground truth for HTR training.

About

This collection is based on various manuscript editions of the Digital Humanities in order to provide the edited texts (transcriptions) as ground truth for training HTR models.

All ground truth is provided as PAGE XML. All transcriptions are based on the OCR-D transcription guidelines Level 2.

See sections below for individual data set descriptions.

Data Sets

Faustedition

Folder	Source	Pages	Lines	License
gsa_389889	faustedition	8	230	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
gsa_390028	faustedition	94	2493	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
gsa_390825	faustedition	30	743	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
gsa_391098	faustedition	414	10178	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
gsa_391511	faustedition	6	168	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
gsa_391347	faustedition	35	955	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
gsa_391247	faustedition	68	1698	CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
		671	16816

Download images using the bash script download_imgs.sh in each data set folder.

Source: Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Faust. Historisch-kritische Edition. Herausgegeben von Anne Bohnenkamp, Silke Henke und Fotis Jannidis unter Mitarbeit von Gerrit Brüning, Katrin Henzel, Christoph Leijser, Gregor Middell, Dietmar Pravida, Thorsten Vitt und Moritz Wissenbach.

Transcription guidlines: The following normalisations were resolved with respect to OCR-D transcription guidelines Level 2:

• Round brackets: ( and ) (edition) → /: and :/ (ground truth)
• Hyphens: - (edition) → = (ground truth)

Theodor Fontane Notizbücher

Folder	Source	Pages	Lines	License
A01	Fontane Edition	67	1046	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
C13	Fontane Edition	53	879	CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
		120	1925

Download images using the bash script download_imgs.sh in each data set folder.

Source: Theodor Fontane: Notizbücher. Digitale genetisch-kritische und kommentierte Edition. Hrsg. von Gabriele Radecke.

Transcription guidlines: The following normalisations were resolved with respect to OCR-D transcription guidelines Level 2:

• Sammlung (edition) → Sam̄lung (ground truth)

August Wilhelm Schlegel Briefe

Folder	Source	Pages	Lines	License
GT_PAGE	Schlegel Briefe	40	788	CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
		40	788

Download images using the bash script download_imgs.sh in each data set folder.

Source: August Wilhelm Schlegel: Digitale Edition der Korrespondenz. Hg. von Jochen Strobel und Claudia Bamberg. Dresden, Marburg, Trier 2014–2020.

Transcription guidlines: The following normalisations were resolved with respect to OCR-D transcription guidelines Level 2:

• round s (edition) → long ſ (ground truth)