README.md

metadata

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: image
      dtype: image
    - name: text
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 4962857995.17
      num_examples: 29591
  download_size: 4963338712
  dataset_size: 4962857995.17
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
  - image-to-text
language:
  - km
tags:
  - ocr
  - khmer
  - visual-grounding
pretty_name: Wild KhmerST

Wild KhmerST Dataset (OCR)

This dataset is a high-quality collection of Khmer text images "in the wild".

📌 Provenance & Credits

• Original Source: Khmer Word Dataset (Kaggle)
• Original Owner: Saly KEO
• Modification: The original dataset (which provides labels per image) has been processed to create pairs of 'text region image' and 'text'. So, these pairs of 'text region image' and 'text' can be directly used to train or fine-tune OCR models.

📄 License

This dataset is distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

• Attribution: You must give appropriate credit to Saly KEO (original source) and the current maintainer.
• Non-Commercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.

Dataset Summary

Each row is a pair of 'text region image' in Image object of pillow package and 'text' in str.

• Primary Language: Khmer (UTF-8)

Dataset Structure

Column	Type	Description
image	Image	The image contains only text
text	String	Text in the image

NOTE: some images contain characters that are not included in their corresponding 'text' column (i.e., this dataset contains some noise). This is because original dataset provides polygon text region and rectangular region that superscribe the polygon is used to crop the image.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please credit the original author:

Original Creator: Saly KEO (Kaggle)
Derivative Work: Kao Vichet
License: CC BY-NC 4.0