Bentham

Bentham project

Dataset Information
Modalities
Images, Texts
Languages
English
Introduced
2014
License
custom
Homepage

Overview

Bentham manuscripts refers to a large set of documents that were written by the renowned English philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). Volunteers of the Transcribe Bentham initiative transcribed this collection. Currently, >6 000 documents or > 25 000 pages have been transcribed using this public web platform.
For our experiments, we used the BenthamR0 dataset a part of the Bentham manuscripts.

Variants: Bentham

Associated Benchmarks

This dataset is used in 1 benchmark:

Recent Benchmark Submissions

Task Model Paper Date
Handwritten Text Recognition StackMix+Blots StackMix and Blot Augmentations for … 2021-08-26

Research Papers

Recent papers with results on this dataset: