A Survey of Historical Document Image Datasets. (arXiv:2203.08504v3 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

This paper presents a systematic literature review of image datasets for
document image analysis, focusing on historical documents, such as handwritten
manuscripts and early prints. Finding appropriate datasets for historical
document analysis is a crucial prerequisite to facilitate research using
different machine learning algorithms. However, because of the very large
variety of the actual data (e.g., scripts, tasks, dates, support systems, and
amount of deterioration), the different formats for data and label
representation, and the different evaluation processes and benchmarks, …

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