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| # Japanese_OCR |
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| This dataset contains four collections of Japanese government and financial institution PDF documents, intended for OCR research, document layout parsing, and financial text extraction. |
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| ## 📂 Contents |
| | Folder | Description | Source Institution | Files | Size | |
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| | `FSA_Whitepaper` | Annual white papers published by the Financial Services Agency (金融庁) | [FSA](https://www.fsa.go.jp/) | 331 | 1.5 GB | |
| | `BOJ_PDFs` | Research papers and discussion papers from the Bank of Japan (日本銀行) | [BOJ](https://www.boj.or.jp/) | 672 | 464 MB | |
| | `JPX_PDFs` | Monthly equity market reports from Japan Exchange Group (JPX) | [JPX](https://www.jpx.co.jp/) | 2246 | 450 MB | |
| | `SESC_Report` | Annual activity reports from the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) | [FSA - SESC](https://www.fsa.go.jp/sesc/) | 140 | 577 MB | |
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| Total size: ~3 GB |
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| ## 🧾 Licensing and Usage |
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| All documents in this dataset are publicly accessible from the official websites of Japanese financial and regulatory authorities. However: |
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| - **JPX PDFs** included in this dataset are publicly available market reports from the official Japan Exchange Group website. |
| No content has been modified. This subset is provided **solely for academic, non-commercial OCR benchmarking**. |
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| - **BOJ PDFs** are discussion and research papers published by the Bank of Japan, typically for academic and policy-oriented dissemination. |
| These are used here under the assumption of fair academic use and should be cited when referenced. |
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| - **FSA Whitepapers** and **SESC Reports** are public information releases from Japan’s Financial Services Agency. |
| These documents are intended for transparency and public policy communication and are considered public-access content under typical non-commercial usage. |
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| ## 🔍 Use Cases |
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| This collection can be used for: |
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| - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) benchmarking |
| - Document layout analysis (tables, headings, multi-column) |
| - Japanese financial terminology extraction |
| - Training document parsing models in multilingual or financial settings |
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| ## 🏷 Tags |
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| `OCR`, `Japanese`, `PDF`, `financial-documents`, `government-data`, `non-commercial`, `public-sector` |
