ChronSeg v 1.0: Dataset for Segmentation of Handwritten Historical Chronicles

ChronSeg is a dataset for the segmentation of historical handwritten chronicles into text, image and background classes. It is composed of the documents provided by the Porta fontium and is freely available for education and research purposes. However, any other use is strictly excluded! The main part of the dataset consists of 5 chronicles in a total of 38 double-sided pages from which 18 contain images. There is also an experimental part that contains 20 printed pages from documents of different types.