Oficio de Hipotecas de Girona. A dataset of Spanish notarial deeds (18th Century) for Handwritten Text Recognition and Layout Analysis of historical documents.

This dataset is a subset of 596 documents from the Registre d'Hipoteques de Girona of 1769 collection, guarded by the Arxiu Històric de Girona. This collection, is composed by hundreds of thousands of notarial deeds from the XVIII-XIX century (1768-1862). Sales, redemption of censuses, inheritance and matrimonial chapters are among the most common documentary typologies in the collection. This dataset is composed of more than 23700 text lines written by a single hand, covering more that 50 different topics (documentary typologies) and a vocabulary of more than 2400 different words. The documents are transcribed using the so-called diplomatic criteria. Additionally, transcripts were tagged with extra enriching/complementary information (e.g. expansion of the abbreviations, hyphen marks, etc.). Along with the transcripts the layout of the document is detected and recorded. Pages have been labeled using six different layout regions. The images along with their respective ground-truth was compiled in PAGE compliant XML format by the Centre de Recerca d'Història Rural and the HTR group of the Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technologies Research Center.This work is partially funded by READ project (Ref. 674943), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project HAR2014-54891-P/HIST, ICREA Acadèmia 2013 and Fundación BBVA project EXPLORHIST