license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: CORD (receipts) — OCR + key-information-extraction ground truth
task_categories:
- image-to-text
- object-detection
language:
- en
- id
size_categories:
- n<1K
tags:
- cord
- ocr
- receipts
- document-ai
- key-information-extraction
- post-ocr-parsing
source_datasets:
- naver-clova-ix/cord-v1
CORD (receipts) — reshaped mirror
A reshaped mirror of naver-clova-ix/cord-v1 (Park et al., NAVER Clova, 2019), packaged for one-row-per-receipt ingestion. Upstream stores the receipt as a HuggingFace Image feature (a {bytes, path} struct) plus a ground_truth JSON string; pipelines that can't decode a struct image column (or don't want a full datasets dependency) can't consume it directly. This mirror splits each receipt into an image file + a JSONL annotation line, joinable by filename.
Re-hosted under Heliosoph for ingestion-pipeline stability. The annotations are CORD's, unchanged in content; the images are re-encoded (see below). Pin a revision for reproducible fetches.
Credit: Seunghyun Park, Seung Shin, Bado Lee, Junyeop Lee, Jaeheung Surh, Minjoon Seo, Hwalsuk Lee (CORD); NAVER Clova.
Why a mirror?
- Struct image column. Upstream's
imageis a HuggingFace Image feature — a{bytes, path}struct in parquet. Readers without nested-type support can't pull the bytes out. - Heavy PNGs. The embedded images are full-resolution PNG photos (
2 MB each, ~2 GB for the full set). This mirror re-encodes them to JPEG q90 — visually lossless for OCR, ~6× smaller (210 MB total).
The ground_truth annotations are copied verbatim (parsed from the upstream JSON string into a nested object).
What this repo contains
cord-train-images.zip # 800 receipt JPEGs (entry name == image_file)
cord-train.jsonl.gz # 800 lines, one JSON object per receipt
cord-validation-images.zip # 100 receipts
cord-validation.jsonl.gz # 100 lines
cord-test-images.zip # 100 receipts
cord-test.jsonl.gz # 100 lines
Annotation JSONL — one receipt per line
{
"image_file": "cord-test-0000.jpg",
"width": 432,
"height": 648,
"ground_truth": {
"gt_parse": { "menu": { "nm": "-TICKET CP", "cnt": "2", "price": "60.000" },
"sub_total": { "subtotal_price": "60.000", "tax_price": "5.455" },
"total": { "total_price": "60.000" } },
"valid_line": [ { "words": [ { "text": "...", "quad": { "x1": 0, "y1": 0, ... } } ],
"category": "menu.nm" } ],
"meta": { "image_size": { "width": 432, "height": 648 } },
"roi": { "x1": 0, "y1": 0, ... }
}
}
image_fileis the exact entry name inside the images zip — join on it directly, no filename parsing.valid_lineis the word-level OCR ground truth: each word'stext, quadrilateral box, and semanticcategory.gt_parseis the structured key-information-extraction target: menu lines, sub-totals, totals.
How to use
import gzip, json, zipfile, io
from PIL import Image
with gzip.open("cord-test.jsonl.gz", "rt", encoding="utf-8") as f:
receipts = [json.loads(line) for line in f]
with zipfile.ZipFile("cord-test-images.zip") as z:
r = receipts[0]
img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(z.read(r["image_file"])))
print(img.size, r["ground_truth"]["gt_parse"])
Dataset specs
| Spec | |
|---|---|
| Receipts | 800 train / 100 validation / 100 test |
| Row granularity | one receipt (image + width/height + full ground_truth) |
| OCR ground truth | word-level: text + quad box + category (valid_line) |
| Parse ground truth | structured menu / sub_total / total (gt_parse) |
| Images | JPEG q90 (re-encoded from upstream full-res PNG) |
| Domain | Indonesian restaurant receipts (photographed) |
| Format | images as zip per split; annotations as gzipped JSONL |
When to pick CORD
- Receipt OCR: detection + recognition on real photographed receipts (skew, glare, thermal paper).
- Key-information extraction / post-OCR parsing: turn a receipt image into structured menu/total fields — the task CORD was built for.
- Document-AI prototyping: word text + box + category is the shape LayoutLM / Donut-style models consume.
For dense printed pages use DocBank; for scene text in the wild, TextOCR / HierText.
License
CC BY 4.0, as released for CORD. Permits commercial use, modification, and redistribution with attribution to NAVER Clova and the CORD authors.