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calfa-ai/iskandar

Name: iskandar
Creator: calfa-ai
License: etalab-2.0
Keywords: task_categories:image-to-text, language:ar, license:etalab-2.0, size_categories:1K<n<10K, format:parquet, modality:image, modality:text, library:datasets, library:dask, library:polars, library:mlcroissant, region:us, htr, ocr, arabic

ISKANDAR — Line-Level HTR Ground-Truth for Arabic historical manuscripts (Oriental) Dataset Description ISKANDAR is a specialized dataset for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) focusing on Arabic historical manuscripts. It contains a curated selection of pages from the al-Iskandar (Romance of Alexander), in Middle Arabic and oriental script. This HuggingFace dataset provides cropped line-level images paired with their transcriptions and rich metadata for… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/calfa-ai/iskandar.

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Author / organization	calfa-ai
License (as declared)	etalab-2.0
Downloads	125 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	20 May 2026
Last updated at source	11 September 2026

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