BaDLAD: A Large Multi-Domain Bengali Document Layout Analysis Dataset

1 code implementation • 9 Mar 2023 • Md. Istiak Hossain Shihab, Md. Rakibul Hasan, Mahfuzur Rahman Emon, Syed Mobassir Hossen, MD. Nazmuddoha Ansary, Intesur Ahmed, Fazle Rabbi Rakib, Shahriar Elahi Dhruvo, Souhardya Saha Dip, Akib Hasan Pavel, Marsia Haque Meghla, Md. Rezwanul Haque, Sayma Sultana Chowdhury, Farig Sadeque, Tahsin Reasat, Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun, Asif Shahriyar Sushmit

While strides have been made in deep learning based Bengali Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the past decade, the absence of large Document Layout Analysis (DLA) datasets has hindered the application of OCR in document transcription, e. g., transcribing historical documents and newspapers.

Benchmarking Document Layout Analysis +2