https://github.com/ub-mannheim/weisthuemer

Ground truth for Jakob Grimm / Weisthümer
https://github.com/ub-mannheim/weisthuemer

antiqua ground-truth ocr

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Ground truth for Jakob Grimm / Weisthümer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ub-mannheim/weisthuemer
• Owner: UB-Mannheim
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2020-03-16T12:16:41.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-12-21T05:49:26.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-12-21T08:37:08.573Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: antiqua, ground-truth, ocr
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• Size: 204 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Weisthümer

This repository contains transcriptions of 35 pages from Jacob Grimm's seven-volume work "Weisthümer", which can be used for training or validation of OCR models.

#### Typeface class: 

Antiqua

#### Languages:

different variants of Middle High German, Latin

#### Special characters:

Roman numerals, exponents, section break (§), long s (ſ), circumflex (â), caron (ǎ), acute accent (á), ring diacritic (å), diacritic umlauts (aͤ), cursive Greek letters Theta (ϑ), Beta (β), Pi (Π).

#### Sources:

The transcriptions refer to digitised material available on archive.org: 


Volume 1: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2J0ZKYG7on8C 


Volume 2: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LFpLZSYYg34C 


Volume 3: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o6S3yrj9TkwC 


Volume 4: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_eAqsmQrcWcQC 


Volume 5: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MMcFAAAAQAAJ 


Volume 6: https://archive.org/details/weisthmer02drongoog 


Volume 7: https://archive.org/details/weisthmer09maurgoog 


#### Further details on the transcription and training workflow can be found in the Wiki