metadata
license: cc-by-4.0
language:
- mnc
tags:
- ocr
- htr
- manchu
- cursive
pretty_name: Cursive Manchu (v2)
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: test
path: data/test-*.parquet
Cursive Manchu — v2
Word-level crops from the Manchu manuscript Talking Dead (preface + chapter 01), paired with Möllendorff romanization and Manchu Unicode (Mongolian block).
Splits
test— 1,940 word images from the preface (14 pages) and chapter 01 (12 pages).
Columns
image— PNG crop of a single Manchu word in cursive script, rotated 90° counter-clockwise and padded to 480×64 white background.roman— Möllendorff romanization.manchu— Manchu Unicode (renders correctly with Noto Sans Mongolian or any Manchu/Mongolian-capable font).
Usage
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("mic7ch/cursive_v2", split="test")
Notes
- Manchu codepoints use the Mongolian block (U+1820–U+1876). Some are formally named "MONGOLIAN LETTER SIBE …" in Unicode — Sibe and Manchu share the script.
- Romanizations were checked against Jerry Norman's A Comprehensive Manchu–English Dictionary (2013). A residual review set of ~80 romans (proper nouns, loans, inflected forms, possible transcription typos) was inspected manually; see repository history.
- Companion to
mic7ch/cursive_v1(327 word crops from a 1680 Manchu military document).