HBA 1.0 dataset

The dataset associated to this competition which is called the HBA 1.0 dataset have been collected from the French digital library Gallica.

The HBA 1.0 dataset is composed of 4,436 real scanned ground truthed historical document images from 11 books (5 manuscripts and 6 printed books) in different languages and scripts published between the 13^th and 19^th centuries.

The following figures illustrate few samples of pages for each book in the HBA 1.0 dataset.

• Book 01

• Book 02

• Book 03

• Book 04

• Book 05

• Book 06

• Book 07

• Book 08

• Book 09

• Book 10

• Book 11

The links associated to the different “Book Id.” correspond to the URL links pointing to the selected historical books in the French digital library Gallica (only low resolution images are publicly available online).