This repository contains 3 datasets created within the POPP project (Project for the Oceration of the Paris Population Census) for the task of handwriting text recognition. These datasets have been published in Recognition and information extraction in historical handwritten tables: toward understanding early 20th century Paris census at DAS 2022.
The 3 datasets are called “Generic dataset”, “Belleville”, and “Chaussée d’Antin” and contains lines made from the extracted rows… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/agomberto/FrenchCensus-handwritten-texts.
