The Peter dataset can be used for reading texts from the manuscripts written by Peter the Great. The dataset annotation contain end-to-end markup for training detection and OCR models, as well as an end-to-end model for reading text from pages.
Paper is available at
http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09354
Digital Peter is an educational task with a historical slant created on the basis of several AI technologies (Computer Vision, NLP, and knowledge… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/ai-forever/Peter.