Norwegian OCR
Historical handwritten letters and diaries, alongside modern research documents.
v1 · 2 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.
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Norwegian handwriting (NorHand)
NorHand contains Norwegian letters and diaries from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The line images capture historical handwriting and spelling; the source release resizes each image to a height of 128 pixels.
Cropped text lineThe model reads an image cropped to one line of text. 1,000 images.
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Norwegian research documents
Modern Norwegian research documents from Nasjonalt vitenarkiv, the national research repository, including theses and reports. The benchmark selects pages across 19 configured Norwegian PDFs and renders them at 300 dpi.
Whole document pageThe model reads an entire page and returns its text in reading order. 100 images.