Ground Truth transcriptions for training OCR of historical Bengali printed texts - Transkribus
Abstract
This dataset comprises 74 digitised images (TIFF files) drawn from a selection of early printed Bengali books (1713-1914) digitised through the Two Centuries of Indian Print project (https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print). Also contained are ground truth transcriptions (XML) for each page that can be used for training optical character recognition software on historical Bengali printed text. The folder contains images and ground truth used to train Transkribus. The images are out of copyright and the transcriptions are also public domain.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Digital Media Forensic Detection
Publication details
- Journal / source
- British Library Research Repository
- Publication date
- 11 August 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset