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+# Text Region Detection in Historical Astronomical Diagrams 
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+Official repository of the paper _"Text region detection in historical astronomical diagrams"_. We introduce the first large, diverse, open-access dataset of **948** historical astronomical diagrams annotated with **10,940** oriented polygonal text regions that spans ten centuries (8<sup>th</sup> to 18<sup>th</sup>) and seven major traditions: Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Byzantine, Latin, Hebrew, and Sanskrit.
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+# Dataset
+## Content
+We provide our dataset under two directories, namely `EIDA` and `EIDALatin`, with annotations in `LabelMe` format. `EIDA` contains images and associated annotations of all traditions (including Latin) under `train`, `val`, and `test` splits:
+```
+EIDA/
+├── train/
+│   ├── <filename_1>.jpg
+│   ├── <filename_1>.json
+│   │   .
+│   │   .
+│   ├── <filename_N>.jpg
+│   └── <filename_N>.json
+├── val/
+└── test/
+```
+
+For class-aware annotations, we provide `EIDALatin`, which contains Latin subset with text classes, and splits in `.txt` format:
+```
+EIDALatin/
+├── data/
+│   ├── <filename_1>.jpg
+│   ├── <filename_1>.json
+│   │   .
+│   │   .
+│   ├── <filename_N>.jpg
+│   └── <filename_N>.json
+├── train.txt
+├── val.txt
+└── test.txt
+```