license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
- image-to-text
- object-detection
language:
- en
tags:
- ocr
- layout
- historical-documents
- southern-africa
- human-rights
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
focus-raw-ocr
Page-level corrected dots.ocr output for the FOCUS on Political Repression in Southern Africa news bulletin, published by the International Defence & Aid Fund from 1975 onwards.
Each row is one page of one document, joined to its rendered page image and the manually-validated dots.ocr layout JSON (bounding boxes + categories + text + reading order).
Schema
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
image |
Image | Original page render (PNG). |
document_id |
string | Stable document id (e.g. Issue 01, Other Doc/Briefing 8, Index 0/Index 03). |
document_name |
string | Human-readable document label. |
parent_folder |
string | Parent folder if any (e.g. Index 0, Other Doc), else null. |
page_id |
string | Canonical page id (e.g. Issue 1_page_001, I1001_page_001). |
page_number |
int32 | 1-based page number within the document. |
is_validated |
bool | Whether a human reviewed this page. |
source_path |
string | Relative path of the JSON in the correction tool's project. |
layout |
string | JSON-encoded list of dots.ocr blocks (bbox, category, text, reading_order, optional group_id). |
markdown |
string | Reflowed markdown preview of the page in reading order. |
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite The Bitter Aloe Project:
@misc{bitter_aloe_focus_raw_ocr,
title = {focus-raw-ocr: Corrected dots.ocr layouts for the FOCUS bulletin},
author = {The Bitter Aloe Project},
year = {2026},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/bitter-aloe/focus-raw-ocr}
}
License & terms
The code and structured annotations in this dataset are released by The Bitter Aloe Project under CC-BY-NC-4.0 for non-commercial research use. The underlying FOCUS publication is © the International Defence & Aid Fund and its successors; please consult the original rightsholders for any commercial reuse of the page imagery or transcribed text.