The Hakenkreuzbanner (hkb) was the party newspaper of the NSDAP for the Mannheim region from 1931 to 1945. More information can be found on the website of Udo Leuschner.
The city archive of Mannheim MARCHIVUM has digitised this newspaper. In order to optimise the automated text recognition, this ground truth dataset was created to train new models.
Mannheim University Library makes this ground truth available for the purposes of science, research and teaching. The University Library expressly distances itself from all NS, racist and violence-glorifying content.
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- 36 single newspaper pages
1931-1945
Fraktur, Antiqua, Latin
German, English, French
All transcriptions were created using Transkribus. The transcription rules are based on the OCR-D transcription guidelines Level 2 with some exceptions (see below):
Special characters:
- Long s (ſ)
- Currency symbols: German Mark (ℳ) and Pfennig (₰), $, £
- Fractions (¼ ½ ¾ ⅐ ⅑ ⅒ ⅓ ⅔ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞)
- R rotunda (ꝛ)
- Dagger (†)
- White square (□)
Normalizations:
- Roman numerals Ⅰ Ⅴ Ⅹ Ⅼ Ⅽ Ⅾ Ⅿ --> I V X L C D M
- Em dash (—) instead of En dash (–)
- Asterisk (*) used for both standard asterisk (*) and tear-drop asterisk (✽)
Additional characters transcribed true to original (contrary to OCR-D Level 2):
- Double oblique hyphen (⸗)