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bitter-aloe/focus-raw-ocr

focus-raw-ocr Page-level corrected dots.ocr output for the FOCUS on Political Repression in Southern Africa news bulletin, published by the International Defence & Aid Fund from 1975 onwards. Each row is one page of one document, joined to its rendered page image and the manually-validated dots.ocr layout JSON (bounding boxes + categories + text + reading order). Schema field type description image Image Original page render (PNG). document_id string… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bitter-aloe/focus-raw-ocr.

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focus-raw-ocr

Page-level corrected dots.ocr output for the FOCUS on Political Repression in Southern Africa news bulletin, published by the International Defence & Aid Fund from 1975 onwards.

Each row is one page of one document, joined to its rendered page image and the manually-validated dots.ocr layout JSON (bounding boxes + categories + text + reading order).

Schema

fieldtypedescription
imageImageOriginal page render (PNG).
document_idstringStable document id (e.g. Issue 01, Other Doc/Briefing 8, Index 0/Index 03).
document_namestringHuman-readable document label.
parent_folderstringParent folder if any (e.g. Index 0, Other Doc), else null.
page_idstringCanonical page id (e.g. Issue 1_page_001, I1001_page_001).
page_numberint321-based page number within the document.
is_validatedboolWhether a human reviewed this page.
source_pathstringRelative path of the JSON in the correction tool's project.
layoutstringJSON-encoded list of dots.ocr blocks (bbox, category, text, reading_order, optional group_id).
markdownstringReflowed markdown preview of the page in reading order.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite The Bitter Aloe Project:

@misc{bitter_aloe_focus_raw_ocr,
  title  = {focus-raw-ocr: Corrected dots.ocr layouts for the FOCUS bulletin},
  author = {The Bitter Aloe Project},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/bitter-aloe/focus-raw-ocr}
}

License & terms

The code and structured annotations in this dataset are released by The Bitter Aloe Project under CC-BY-NC-4.0 for non-commercial research use. The underlying FOCUS publication is © the International Defence & Aid Fund and its successors; please consult the original rightsholders for any commercial reuse of the page imagery or transcribed text.