Datasets:

edyhvh
/

hutter

license: cc0-1.0
task_categories:
  - image-to-text
language:
  - he
tags:
  - biblical-text
  - hebrew
  - new-testament
  - ocr
  - besorah
  - elias-hutter
  - text-recognition
  - religious-text
size_categories:
  - 1K-10K

Dataset Card for Hebrew Biblical Text Images

Dataset Description

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains rendered images of biblical texts in Hebrew, specifically covering books from the Elias Hutter's Besorah (New Testament). The dataset is organized into two main subsets:

Hebrew (hebrew/): Processed/rendered Hebrew text images (1,243 images)
Raw (raw/): Original raw text images (2,541 images)

Each book is organized in its own directory, with images sequentially numbered (e.g., 000001.png, 000002.png).

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

This dataset is designed for:

Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Training and evaluating OCR models to recognize Hebrew text from rendered images
Image-to-Text: Converting rendered text images back to machine-readable Hebrew text
Biblical Text Processing: Research and analysis of biblical texts in Hebrew
Document Understanding: Understanding document structure and layout of religious texts
Multilingual OCR: Supporting Hebrew language OCR research

Citation Information

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite it as:

@dataset{hutter,
  title={Elias Hutter's hebrew besorah (new testament) translation},
  author={edyhvh},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/edyhvh/hutter},
  license={CC0-1.0}
}

Contributions

Contributions, suggestions, and improvements are welcome. Please open an issue or submit a pull request if you have suggestions for improving the dataset or documentation.