CyrillicHist (Cyrillic Historical Manuscript Dataset)

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026 Dataset Open access

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Authors: Andrey Nikishin
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18066471
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Abstract

CyrillicHist contains 150 high-resolution page images from 18 different Cyrillic manuscripts dating back to the historical period of the 11th-16th centuries. The dataset is provided with a two-level hierarchy of annotations, including both bounding boxes for text blocks and precise polygonal segmentation masks for 4,600 individual lines of text.

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Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
5 May 2026
Document type
Dataset