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license: cc-by-4.0
language:
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tags:
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pretty_name: Finnish Court Records-sub500
---
# Finnish Court Records-sub500

## Dataset Description

The **Finnish Court Records-sub500** is a dataset created for research in **Handwriting Text Recognition (HTR)** and **Document Layout Analysis**.

The dataset consists of a selection of **500 pages** taken from the **Renovated District Court Records** (19th century), one of the largest collections held at the National Archives of Finland. The documents include records of deeds, mortgages, life-annuities, and other notarial records. The language of the transcriptions is **Swedish**.

A notable complexity of this dataset is the presence of images containing both single and double document pages.

## Dataset Creation

### Source Data

The data is sourced from the **Renovated District Court Records (19th century)** collection at the National Archives of Finland.

### Creators

The primary creators are: **Lorenzo Quirós, Maria Kallio, and Enrique Vidal**.

### Funding

The creation of this resource was a collaborative effort between the PRHLT Research Center and the National Archives of Finland.

## License

The dataset is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)** license.

## Citation

When using this dataset, please cite the original Zenodo record as follows:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{QuirósKallioVidal2020,
  author    = {Quirós, Lorenzo and Kallio, Maria and Vidal, Enrique},
  title     = {Finnish Court Records-sub500. A dataset of Finnish notarial records (19th Century)},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  year      = {2020},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.3945088},
  url       = {[https://zenodo.org/records/3945088](https://zenodo.org/records/3945088)}
}