Gold-standard OCR training data for historical newspaper scans.
13,371 line-level transcriptions verified by Qwen3-VL 235B
Line crop PNG images from 100 newspaper pages
73 unique titles spanning 1840s-2010s
Train/val/test split by page (80/10/10)
verified_lines.jsonl — full metadata (split, page_id, line_id, crop_path… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/NealCaren/newspaper-ocr-gold.