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pretty_name: HTR Dataset ICFHR 2016
---
# HTR Dataset ICFHR 2016
## Dataset Description
The **HTR Dataset ICFHR 2016** is a historical document image dataset primarily intended for **Handwriting Text Recognition (HTR)** research and benchmarking.
This dataset was created as part of the European Commission's **READ project** (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) and consists of a subset of documents from the **Ratsprotokolle collection**, which contains minutes of council meetings held from 1470 to 1805.
The documents are written in **Early Modern German** and feature complex handwriting, making this a challenging resource for HTR algorithms. It was notably used in the HTR competition held at the **ICFHR 2016** conference.
## Data Structure
The dataset is distributed across two main archives: `Train-And-Val-ICFHR-2016.tgz` and `Test-ICFHR-2016.tgz`.
The training and validation sets comprise **400 pages**. The ground-truth transcription is provided at the line level within the standard **PAGE XML format** (not plain text transcripts). Each data instance generally includes a page image and the corresponding PAGE XML file.
## Dataset Creation
### Source Data
The data originates from the **Ratsprotokolle collection** (minutes of council meetings from 1470 to 1805).
### Creators
The primary creators of this specific dataset compilation are: **A.H. Toselli, V. Romero, M. Villegas, E. Vidal, and J.A. Sánchez**.
## License
The dataset is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)** license.
## Citation
When using this dataset, please cite the original Zenodo record as follows:
```bibtex
@inproceedings{ToselliRomeroVillegasVidalSanchez2018,
author = {Toselli, A. H. and Romero, V. and Villegas, M. and Vidal, E. and S\'{a}nchez, J. A.},
title = {HTR Dataset ICFHR 2016},
publisher = {Zenodo},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.1164045},
url = {[https://zenodo.org/records/1164045](https://zenodo.org/records/1164045)}
} |