README.md

---
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:

```bibtex
@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.