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license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: 'Bengali Documents Dataset (PDF)'
language:
- bn
tags:
- pdf
- bengali
- document-understanding
- text-recognition
- ocr
- ai-research
- computer-vision
- text-extraction
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---
# Bengali Documents Dataset (PDF)
*This dataset contains a curated collection of Bengali-language documents in PDF format. The corpus includes educational materials, books, reports, articles, and public-domain texts written in Bengali script. It is designed to support AI research in OCR, document understanding, and text extraction for Indic languages.*
## 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 Bengali
- **Supported Tasks**:
- Extraction of Bengali text from PDF documents
- Classification by topic or domain (education, literature, news, government)
- OCR for printed Bengali script and mixed-language layouts
- Benchmarking Bengali-language document processing models
## Languages
- **Primary Language**: Bengali
- **Secondary Presence**: English terms, numerals, and section headers (common in bilingual publications)
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
The dataset was curated to advance AI systems that process Bengali-language documents, enhance OCR quality for Indic scripts, and enable structured understanding of mixed-script PDFs.
### Source Data
- **Contributors**: Public archives, open-access Bengali libraries, educational repositories, and volunteer submissions.
- **Collection Process**: Documents were compiled from freely available PDF sources with permissible open licenses.
### Other Known Limitations
- **Bias**: Focused more on educational and literary content; limited representation of informal or handwritten material
- **Format Variation**: Some PDFs include embedded images or scanned pages
- **Dialect Coverage**: Primarily Standard Bengali (বাংলা), limited regional dialects
## Intended Uses
### ✅ Direct Use
- Training OCR and NLP systems for Bengali document understanding
- Research on multilingual document parsing and Indic language digitization
- Educational and academic AI research for Bengali text extraction
### ❌ Out-of-Scope Use
- Extracting or profiling personal data from documents
- Commercial reuse of copyrighted content
- Use in surveillance, handwriting identification, or behavioral analysis
## License
CC BY 4.0
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