BAYBARS is a specialized dataset for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) focusing on Arabic historical manuscripts. It contains a curated selection of pages from the Sīrat Baybars (the Epic of Baibars) transcribed in the Oriental script (Levantine Middle Arabic).
This HuggingFace dataset provides cropped line-level images paired with their transcriptions… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/calfa-ai/baybars.
