johnlockejrr/samaritan_v1

Samaritan v1 - line level

Dataset Summary

The Samaritanv1 dataset comprises Samaritan Biblical manuscripts line images and text from 14th and early 17th century.

Note that all images are resized to a fixed height of 128 pixels.

Languages

All the documents in the dataset are written in Hebrew, Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

{
  'image': <PIL.JpegImagePlugin.JpegImageFile image mode=RGB size=4300x128 at 0x1A800E8E190,
  'text': 'ינבו הנש תאמו םישלשו'
}

Data Fields

• image: a PIL.Image.Image object containing the image. Note that when accessing the image column (using dataset[0]["image"]), the image file is automatically decoded. Decoding of a large number of image files might take a significant amount of time. Thus it is important to first query the sample index before the "image" column, i.e. dataset[0]["image"] should always be preferred over dataset["image"][0].
• text: the label transcription of the image. The text was intentionally flipped from RTL to LTR because of PyLaia library limitation to LTR.