---
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: 'Turkish Documents Dataset (PDF)'
language:
- tr
tags:
- pdf
- turkish
- document-understanding
- text-recognition
- ocr
- ai-research
- computer-vision
- text-extraction
task_categories:
- document-classification
- text-recognition
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Turkish Documents Dataset (PDF)
*This dataset contains a curated collection of Turkish-language documents in PDF format. The corpus includes books, research papers, news articles, educational materials, and public-domain government publications written in Turkish. It is designed to support AI research in OCR, multilingual document understanding, and text extraction.*

## Contact
For queries or collaborations related to this dataset, contact:  
  - anoushka@kgen.io  
  - abhishek.vadapalli@kgen.io  

## Supported Tasks

- **Task Categories**:  
  - Document Classification  
  - OCR and Text Recognition  
  - Layout and Structure Analysis  
  - Language Modeling for Turkish  

- **Supported Tasks**:  
  - Extraction of printed Turkish text from PDF files  
  - Classification of documents by domain (academic, educational, literary, news)  
  - OCR for Turkish diacritics and Latin-script variations  
  - Benchmarking AI models for Turkish-language document parsing and understanding  

## Languages

- **Primary Language**: Turkish  
- **Secondary Presence**: English and Arabic-origin words commonly used in Turkish text  

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale
The dataset was curated to improve AI systems’ ability to process Turkish-language documents with varied formatting, structure, and vocabulary. It supports multilingual OCR and research in digital archiving of Turkish text sources.

### Source Data
- **Contributors**: Public Turkish archives, educational repositories, and open-access digital libraries.  
- **Collection Process**: All PDFs were sourced from open-license or public-domain repositories that permit reuse for AI training and research.  

### Other Known Limitations
- **Bias**: Primarily academic and formal Turkish; fewer informal or dialectal documents  
- **Format Variation**: Some PDFs contain scanned pages or mixed Turkish-English content  
- **Regional Coverage**: Focused on Standard Turkish; limited inclusion of Ottoman Turkish or regional dialects  

## Intended Uses

### ✅ Direct Use
- Training and evaluation of OCR models for Turkish text  
- Research in multilingual document understanding  
- Digitization of Turkish-language educational and governmental archives  

### ❌ Out-of-Scope Use
- Extracting or identifying personal or sensitive data  
- Commercial redistribution of copyrighted materials  
- Use in handwriting analysis, surveillance, or profiling  

## License

CC BY 4.0