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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: 'Turkish Documents Dataset (PDF)' |
| language: |
| - tr |
| tags: |
| - pdf |
| - turkish |
| - document-understanding |
| - text-recognition |
| - ocr |
| - ai-research |
| - computer-vision |
| - text-extraction |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # Turkish Documents Dataset (PDF) |
| *This dataset contains a curated collection of Turkish-language documents in PDF format. The corpus includes books, research papers, news articles, educational materials, and public-domain government publications written in Turkish. It is designed to support AI research in OCR, multilingual document understanding, and text extraction.* |
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| ## Contact |
| For queries or collaborations related to this dataset, contact: |
| - anoushka@kgen.io |
| - abhishek.vadapalli@kgen.io |
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| ## Supported Tasks |
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| - **Task Categories**: |
| - Document Classification |
| - OCR and Text Recognition |
| - Layout and Structure Analysis |
| - Language Modeling for Turkish |
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| - **Supported Tasks**: |
| - Extraction of printed Turkish text from PDF files |
| - Classification of documents by domain (academic, educational, literary, news) |
| - OCR for Turkish diacritics and Latin-script variations |
| - Benchmarking AI models for Turkish-language document parsing and understanding |
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| ## Languages |
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| - **Primary Language**: Turkish |
| - **Secondary Presence**: English and Arabic-origin words commonly used in Turkish text |
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| ## Dataset Creation |
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| ### Curation Rationale |
| The dataset was curated to improve AI systems’ ability to process Turkish-language documents with varied formatting, structure, and vocabulary. It supports multilingual OCR and research in digital archiving of Turkish text sources. |
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| ### Source Data |
| - **Contributors**: Public Turkish archives, educational repositories, and open-access digital libraries. |
| - **Collection Process**: All PDFs were sourced from open-license or public-domain repositories that permit reuse for AI training and research. |
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| ### Other Known Limitations |
| - **Bias**: Primarily academic and formal Turkish; fewer informal or dialectal documents |
| - **Format Variation**: Some PDFs contain scanned pages or mixed Turkish-English content |
| - **Regional Coverage**: Focused on Standard Turkish; limited inclusion of Ottoman Turkish or regional dialects |
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| ## Intended Uses |
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| ### ✅ Direct Use |
| - Training and evaluation of OCR models for Turkish text |
| - Research in multilingual document understanding |
| - Digitization of Turkish-language educational and governmental archives |
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| ### ❌ Out-of-Scope Use |
| - Extracting or identifying personal or sensitive data |
| - Commercial redistribution of copyrighted materials |
| - Use in handwriting analysis, surveillance, or profiling |
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| ## License |
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| CC BY 4.0 |
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