Danish OCR
Council minutes, contemporary handwriting, diplomatic reports, Fraktur books and EU documents.
v2 · 7 tasks
A task pairs a dataset with an image input: a cropped text line or a whole document page. Each task below has equal weight in the benchmark score.
View leaderboard →-
Danish diplomatic reports
Typewritten Danish diplomatic reports, distributed as the EHRI Danish typewritten line dataset. This collection tests recognition of archival typescript rather than handwriting.
Cropped text lineThe model reads an image cropped to one line of text. 1,000 images.
-
Modern Danish handwriting
Contemporary handwriting collected by the Danish National Archives in 2025. Volunteers copied passages from ePAROLE, mainly newspaper and magazine text from the 1990s.
Cropped text lineThe model reads an image cropped to one line of text. 977 images.
-
Historical Danish handwriting
Handwritten city and parish council minutes from 1841–1939, published by Aarhus City Archives. The pages were segmented, transcribed and proofread by archive staff and volunteers.
Cropped text lineThe model reads an image cropped to one line of text. 1,000 images.
-
Modern Danish handwriting
Contemporary handwriting collected by the Danish National Archives in 2025. Volunteers copied passages from ePAROLE, mainly newspaper and magazine text from the 1990s.
Whole document pageThe model reads an entire page and returns its text in reading order. 100 images.
-
Historical Danish handwriting
Handwritten city and parish council minutes from 1841–1939, published by Aarhus City Archives. The pages were segmented, transcribed and proofread by archive staff and volunteers.
Whole document pageThe model reads an entire page and returns its text in reading order. 100 images.
-
EU Official Journal · Danish
Danish pages from the 2023 Official Journal of the European Union, released in OJ4OCRMT. The benchmark uses the regular-page test subset, rendered at 300 dpi.
Whole document pageThe model reads an entire page and returns its text in reading order. 100 images.
-
Danish books (Fraktur)
Twenty complete pages: ten from Søren Kierkegaard’s Af en endnu Levendes Papirer (1838) and ten from Hans Christian Andersen’s Billedbog uden Billeder (1840). The Royal Danish Library digitised both books; Wikimedia Commons supplies the unaltered scans.
All 20 pages form the complete Danish Fraktur task in the Danish and Scandinavian benchmarks. The additional comparison was performed by an AI assistant, not an independent human transcription team. The five initial models were selected by Swedish Fraktur CER; Swedish inputs are cropped lines, while this task evaluates whole pages.
Whole document pageThe model reads an entire page and returns its text in reading order. 20 images.