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Teklia/DAI-CReTDHI-RecordGold-ATR

DAI-records-ATR - Record level This dataset comprises parish and civil records from three main locations in France: Ardennes Tours Ile de Ré Dataset Summary The DAI-records-ATR dataset includes 7,720 handwritten records from the XVI-XIXth centuries. The records have been annotated by experts as part of the DAI-CReTDHI research project, using Teklia's open-source annotation interface Callico. Split set images train 6178 val 784 test… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Teklia/DAI-CReTDHI-RecordGold-ATR.

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DAI-records-ATR - Record level

Dataset Description

—Homepage: DAI-CReTDHI
—Point of Contact: TEKLIA

This dataset comprises parish and civil records from three main locations in France:

Dataset Summary

The DAI-records-ATR dataset includes 7,720 handwritten records from the XVI-XIXth centuries.

The records have been annotated by experts as part of the DAI-CReTDHI research project, using Teklia's open-source annotation interface Callico.

Split

set	images
train	6178
val	784
test	758

Benchmark

Overall evaluation

Model	CER (%)	WER (%)	NLS (%)
Qwen-2.5 7B VL	44.10	73.77	56.67
Qwen-3 8B VL	62.06	85.42	39.20
Qwen-3.5 9B VL	44.56	67.58	56.70
Churro-3B	22.24	36.26	79.87
Gemma4	55.49	85.75	46.21
Claude Opus 4.5	20.15	39.58	80.78
Mistral OCR	41.35	76.48	61.02
Gemini 3.0 Pro	16.31	33.47	84.25
Qwen-2.5 7B VL (fine-tuned)	9.24	21.25

Per period evaluation

Model	Period	CER (%)	WER (%)	NLS (%)	N images
Qwen-2.5 7B VL	< 1600	76.74	99.78	24.38	13
	1600 - 1650	57.33	89.14	43.19	169
	1650 - 1700	37.98	69.69	62.76	162
	1700 - 1750	39.59	68.48	60.91	210
	1750 - 1800	47.02	70.64	53.39	204
Qwen-3 8B VL	< 1600	99.85	100.0	0.15	13
	1600 - 1650	81.82	98.88	18.9	169
	1650 - 1700	52.25	78.67	48.89	162
	1700 - 1750	59.5	82.17	42.06	210
	1750 - 1800	59.0	80.92	42.32	204
Qwen-3.5 9B VL	< 1600	89.96	98.05	13.03	13
	1600 - 1650	66.58	87.65	34.8	169
	1650 - 1700	39.4	63.79	61.84	162
	1700 - 1750	31.84	56.44	68.81	210
	1750 - 1800	39.7	59.89	61.13	204
Churro-3B	< 1600	36.12	55.1	66.38	13
	1600 - 1650	23.23	40.72	77.41	169
	1650 - 1700	20.04	35.47	80.9	162
	1700 - 1750	21.41	32.51	79.15	210
	1750 - 1800	31.75	41.16	69.57	204
Gemma4	< 1600	115.4	137.96	22.34	13
	1600 - 1650	124.85	137.53	22.7	169
	1650 - 1700	77.2	106.59	40.97	162
	1700 - 1750	63.26	101.87	44.84	210
	1750 - 1800	70.96	99.36	43.95	204
Claude Opus 4.5	< 1600	68.5	104.99	46.62	13
	1600 - 1650	34.33	60.6	68.1	169
	1650 - 1700	21.84	42.87	79.4	162
	1700 - 1750	19.95	38.13	80.96	210
	1750 - 1800	14.17	31.39	86.24	204
Mistral OCR	< 1600	95.9	145.55	23.19	13
	1600 - 1650	65.71	107.68	38.86	169
	1650 - 1700	44.73	83.86	59.43	162
	1700 - 1750	38.31	72.84	63.45	210
	1750 - 1800	33.53	65.03	67.9	204
Gemini 3.0	< 1600	53.91	84.82	50.87	13
	1600 - 1650	28.65	54.02	72.17	169
	1650 - 1700	19.27	37.74	81.41	162
	1700 - 1750	14.17	29.63	86.33	210
	1750 - 1800	12.07	27.13	88.33	204
Qwen-2.5 7B VL (fine-tuned)	< 1600	31.2	50.11	71.95	13
	1600 - 1650	15.77	30.5	84.79	169
	1650 - 1700	8.91	20.45	91.26	162
	1700 - 1750	8.82	20.18	91.32	210
	1750 - 1800	7.19	18.88	92.87	204

Languages

All the documents in the dataset are written in French.

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

Each instance represents a record with its image and transcription:

json

{
    "split": "test",
    "source": "Ardennes",
    "record_id": "076e0576-7938-4d03-8e9d-0344d588ad92",
    "record_url": "https://europe.iiif.teklia.com/iiif/2/geneanet%2FArdennes_BMS%2F382444%2F00104.jpg/1389,93,1234,443/full/0/default.jpg",
    "start_date": 1629,
    "end_date": 1696,
    "parish": "Mézières",
    "text": "1664\nLe samedi vingthuit jour de juin 1664 a esté baptisé Christophle du Raulin fils de Paulin Petitcolas et de Fabian Pessegniet ses pere et mere duquel ont esté parin et marine Christophle du Verdelet et Jeanne Petitcolas sa femme."}

Data Fields

—split (string): Dataset split identifier (train, val, or test)
—source (string): Source collection
—record_id (string): Unique UUID identifier for the record in Arkindex
—record_url (string): IIIF URL to the image
—start_date (int): Start year of the corresponding parish register
—end_date (int): End year of the corresponding parish register
—parish (string): Name of the parish where the record originates
—text (string): Expert transcription. The transcription may include the following special tokens to indicate annotation uncertainty or editorial features:
—[UNCERTAIN]: Indicates a segment that could not be confidently transcribed by the annotator. This token replaces the unreadable or ambiguous portion.
—[CROSSED_OUT]: Placed immediately before a word or sequence of words that are crossed out in the original document. The crossed-out content itself is still transcribed and follows this token.