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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: 'French Documents Dataset (PDF)' |
| language: |
| - fr |
| tags: |
| - pdf |
| - french |
| - document-understanding |
| - text-recognition |
| - ocr |
| - ai-research |
| - computer-vision |
| - text-extraction |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
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| # French Documents Dataset (PDF) |
| *This dataset contains a curated collection of French-language documents in PDF format. It includes educational materials, books, news articles, government publications, and public-domain literature written in French. The dataset supports AI research in OCR, document understanding, and multilingual 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 French |
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| - **Supported Tasks**: |
| - Automatic extraction of French text from PDFs |
| - Classification of documents by topic (literary, educational, official, news) |
| - OCR for printed French text with diacritics and typographic variation |
| - Benchmarking AI models for multilingual and French-language document understanding |
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| ## Languages |
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| - **Primary Language**: French |
| - **Secondary Presence**: English and other European languages (common in academic or bilingual contexts) |
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| ## Dataset Creation |
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| ### Curation Rationale |
| The dataset was curated to improve AI systems' ability to process and understand French-language documents with varied fonts, layouts, and linguistic structures. It is intended for research in multilingual OCR and document intelligence. |
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| ### Source Data |
| - **Contributors**: Open-access French repositories, public libraries, and volunteer data curators. |
| - **Collection Process**: All documents were sourced from legally accessible, open-licensed PDF archives and public-domain resources. |
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| ### Other Known Limitations |
| - **Bias**: Primarily formal and academic content; limited representation of informal or regional French |
| - **Format Variation**: Some PDFs may include embedded scanned pages or mixed formats |
| - **Geographical Bias**: Mostly European French; limited coverage of African and Canadian French variants |
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| ## Intended Uses |
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| ### ✅ Direct Use |
| - Training and evaluation of OCR systems for French text |
| - Research in document classification and layout analysis |
| - Digitization of French-language archives and educational material |
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| ### ❌ Out-of-Scope Use |
| - Identification of individuals or private data from PDFs |
| - Commercial use of copyrighted works without permission |
| - Use in profiling, surveillance, or handwriting analysis |
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| ## License |
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| CC BY 4.0 |
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