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license: cc-by-4.0
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pretty_name: 'Bengali Documents Dataset (PDF)'
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- bn
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tags:
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- pdf
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- bengali
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- document-understanding
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- text-recognition
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- ocr
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- ai-research
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- computer-vision
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- text-extraction
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task_categories:
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- document-classification
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- text-recognition
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size_categories:
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- 1K<n<10K
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# Bengali Documents Dataset (PDF)
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*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.*
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## Contact
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For queries or collaborations related to this dataset, contact:
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- anoushka@kgen.io
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- abhishek.vadapalli@kgen.io
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## Supported Tasks
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- **Task Categories**:
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- Document Classification
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- OCR and Text Recognition
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- Layout and Structure Analysis
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- Language Modeling for Bengali
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- **Supported Tasks**:
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- Extraction of Bengali text from PDF documents
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- Classification by topic or domain (education, literature, news, government)
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- OCR for printed Bengali script and mixed-language layouts
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- Benchmarking Bengali-language document processing models
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## Languages
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- **Primary Language**: Bengali
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- **Secondary Presence**: English terms, numerals, and section headers (common in bilingual publications)
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## Dataset Creation
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### Curation Rationale
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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.
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### Source Data
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- **Contributors**: Public archives, open-access Bengali libraries, educational repositories, and volunteer submissions.
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- **Collection Process**: Documents were compiled from freely available PDF sources with permissible open licenses.
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### Other Known Limitations
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- **Bias**: Focused more on educational and literary content; limited representation of informal or handwritten material
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- **Format Variation**: Some PDFs include embedded images or scanned pages
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- **Dialect Coverage**: Primarily Standard Bengali (বাংলা), limited regional dialects
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## Intended Uses
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### ✅ Direct Use
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- Training OCR and NLP systems for Bengali document understanding
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- Research on multilingual document parsing and Indic language digitization
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- Educational and academic AI research for Bengali text extraction
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### ❌ Out-of-Scope Use
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- Extracting or profiling personal data from documents
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- Commercial reuse of copyrighted content
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- Use in surveillance, handwriting identification, or behavioral analysis
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## License
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CC BY 4.0
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