LION Dataset

The presented dataset consists of 198 digitised pages, from eight notepads of the manuscript collection of Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (1907 - 2002), written in the Swedish stenography system Melin. It covers portions of the first six chapters of her novel The Brothers Lionheart (1973), inspiring the name of the dataset, as well as excerpts from three other works by Lindgren. LION is the first of its kind in several regards. Firstly, it is the first dataset containing a portion of Astrid Lindgren's original drafts and handwriting. Secondly, it is the first to present text, written in the Swedish stenography system Melin. Finally, it is the first publicly available dataset, covering a substantial amount of handwritten lines in any kind of stenographic system. The repository contains page and line images, as well as annotations, in the form of bounding boxes and transliterations. Furthermore, data splittings (train, validation, test) are proposed. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please also see the included LICENSE file or http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This work is partially supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) (Dnr P19-0103:1)