---
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.