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+license: cc0-1.0
+---
+
+### Dataset description
+
+33.000 transcribed text lines from historical newspapers (before 1878) along with the cropped images of the original scans
+
+Text line based OCR
+19.000 text lines in Antiqua
+14.000 text lines in Fraktur
+Transcribed using double-keying (99.95% accuracy)
+Public Domain, CC0 (See copyright notice)
+Best for training an OCR engine
+
+The newspapers used are:
+- Le Gratis luxembourgeois (1857-1858)
+- Luxemburger Volks-Freund (1869-1876)
+- L'Arlequin (1848-1848)
+- Courrier du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (1844-1868)
+- L'Avenir (1868-1871)
+- Der Wächter an der Sauer (1849-1869)
+- Luxemburger Zeitung (1844-1845)
+- Luxemburger Zeitung = Journal de Luxembourg (1858-1859)
+- Der Volksfreund (1848-1849)
+- Cäcilia (1862-1871)
+- Kirchlicher Anzeiger für die Diözese Luxemburg (1871-1878)
+- L'Indépendance luxembourgeoise (1871-1878)
+- Luxemburger Anzeiger (1856)
+- L'Union (1860-1871)
+- Diekircher Wochenblatt (1837-1848)
+- Das Vaterland (1869-1870)
+- D'Wäschfra (1868-1878)
+- Luxemburger Bauernzeitung (1857)
+- Luxemburger Wort (1848-1878)
+
+### URL for this dataset
+
+https://data.bnl.lu/data/historical-newspapers/
+
+### Dataset format
+
+Two JSONL files (antiqua.jsonl.gz and fraktur.jsonl.gz) with the follwing fields:
+- `font` is either antiqua or fraktur
+- `img` is the filename of the associated image for the text
+- `text` is the handcorrected double-keyed text transcribed from the image
+
+Sample:
+```json
+{
+  "font": "fraktur",
+  "img": "fraktur-000011.png",
+  "text": "Vidal die Vollmacht für Paris an. Auch"
+}
+```
+
+In addition there are two `.zip` files with the associated images
+
+### Dataset modality
+
+Text and associated Images from Scans
+
+### Dataset licence
+
+Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication and Certification
+
+### size of dataset
+
+500MB-2GB
+
+### Contact details for data custodian
+
+opendata@bnl.etat.lu

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