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davanstrien
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dots-ocr-test-exams

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143486138	1	143116563	Circular No. 20. Scottish Education Department; Letters should be addressed— “ The Secretary, Whitehall, London, S.W.l.” SCOTTISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, WHITEHALL, LONDON, S.W.l. loth January 1920. SIR, I AM to remind you that it is the duty of every Education Authority to prepare and submit for the approval of the Depa...	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <alto xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto.xsd"><Description><MeasurementUnit>pixel</MeasurementUnit><sourceImageInformation><fileName>./data/pdfs/c_125883965/i_143486138/168499299.23.pdf</fileName></sourceImageInformation><OCRProcessing ID="IdOcr"><ocrProcessingStep><...	true	true	Scottish Education Department - 1920 - GEB.16	true	Scottish Education Department	1920	GEB.16	[{"bbox": [366, 101, 478, 116], "category": "Page-header", "text": "Circular No. 20."}, {"bbox": [131, 174, 259, 185], "category": "Text", "text": "Letters should be addressed—"}, {"bbox": [126, 187, 263, 237], "category": "Text", "text": "\"The Secretary,\nScottish Education Department,\nWhitehall,\nLondon, S.W.I.\""}...	[{"model_id": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2025-10-07T14:23:40.618068", "prompt_mode": "layout-all"}]
143486138	2	143116575	2 receive, as soon as may be, and if possible not later than March 3Jst, a formal statement showing clearly — (a) The number of children (if any) residing beyond a radius of three miles from the nearest school in the various parts of your Authority’s area, and the provision which is being made, or has been made, for th...	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <alto xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto.xsd"><Description><MeasurementUnit>pixel</MeasurementUnit><sourceImageInformation><fileName>./data/pdfs/c_125883965/i_143486138/168499299.23.pdf</fileName></sourceImageInformation><OCRProcessing ID="IdOcr"><ocrProcessingStep><...	true	true	Scottish Education Department - 1920 - GEB.16	true	Scottish Education Department	1920	GEB.16	[{"bbox": [278, 87, 287, 99], "category": "Page-header", "text": "2"}, {"bbox": [102, 115, 463, 144], "category": "Text", "text": "receive, as soon as may be, and if possible not later than\nMarch 31st, a formal statement showing clearly—"}, {"bbox": [121, 153, 465, 223], "category": "List-item", "text": "(a) The numbe...	[{"model_id": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2025-10-07T14:23:40.618068", "prompt_mode": "layout-all"}]
143486138	3	143116587	3 Authority of his district for such financial assistance as he may require towards maintenance and towards payment of fees, and it will be necessary, if the scheme does not already provide for the 'granting of such assistance, to amend it accordingly forthwith. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, To t...	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <alto xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto.xsd"><Description><MeasurementUnit>pixel</MeasurementUnit><sourceImageInformation><fileName>./data/pdfs/c_125883965/i_143486138/168499299.23.pdf</fileName></sourceImageInformation><OCRProcessing ID="IdOcr"><ocrProcessingStep><...	true	true	Scottish Education Department - 1920 - GEB.16	true	Scottish Education Department	1920	GEB.16	[{"bbox": [281, 84, 290, 97], "category": "Page-header", "text": "3"}, {"bbox": [105, 109, 471, 183], "category": "Text", "text": "Authority of his district for such financial assistance as he may require towards maintenance and towards payment of fees, and it will be necessary, if the scheme does not already provide f...	[{"model_id": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2025-10-07T14:23:40.618068", "prompt_mode": "layout-all"}]
143486138	4	143116599		<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <alto xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/v3/alto.xsd"><Description><MeasurementUnit>pixel</MeasurementUnit><sourceImageInformation><fileName>./data/pdfs/c_125883965/i_143486138/168499299.23.pdf</fileName></sourceImageInformation><OCRProcessing ID="IdOcr"><ocrProcessingStep><...	true	true	Scottish Education Department - 1920 - GEB.16	true	Scottish Education Department	1920	GEB.16	[{"bbox": [109, 678, 470, 814], "category": "Text", "text": "THE\n\nOFFICE\n\nOF\n\nTHE\n\nCHAIRMAN\n\nOF THE\n\nSTATE\n\nDEPARTMENT\n\nOF\n\nNURSES\n\nAND\n\nNURSING\n\nASSISTANTS\n\nIN\n\nTHE\n\nUNIVERSITY\n\nHOSPITALS\n\nOF\n\nNEW YORK\n\nAND\n\nSOUTHERN\n\nMICHIGAN\n\nAND\n\nILLINOIS\n\nAND\n\nOTHER\n\nOFFICES\n\nW...	[{"model_id": "rednote-hilab/dots.ocr", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2025-10-07T14:23:40.618068", "prompt_mode": "layout-all"}]
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Document OCR using dots.ocr

This dataset contains OCR results from images in NationalLibraryOfScotland/Scottish-School-Exam-Papers using DoTS.ocr, a compact 1.7B multilingual model.

Processing Details

Source Dataset: NationalLibraryOfScotland/Scottish-School-Exam-Papers
Model: rednote-hilab/dots.ocr
Number of Samples: 10
Processing Time: 1.6 min
Processing Date: 2025-10-07 14:23 UTC

Configuration

Image Column: image
Output Column: markdown
Dataset Split: train
Batch Size: 16
Prompt Mode: layout-all
Max Model Length: 8,192 tokens
Max Output Tokens: 8,192
GPU Memory Utilization: 80.0%

Model Information

DoTS.ocr is a compact multilingual document parsing model that excels at:

🌍 100+ Languages - Multilingual document support
📊 Table extraction - Structured data recognition
📐 Formulas - Mathematical notation preservation
📝 Layout-aware - Reading order and structure preservation
⚡ Fast inference - 2-3x faster than native HF with vLLM
🎯 Compact - Only 1.7B parameters

Dataset Structure

The dataset contains all original columns plus:

markdown: The extracted text in markdown format
inference_info: JSON list tracking all OCR models applied to this dataset

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
import json

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("{output_dataset_id}", split="train")

# Access the markdown text
for example in dataset:
    print(example["markdown"])
    break

# View all OCR models applied to this dataset
inference_info = json.loads(dataset[0]["inference_info"])
for info in inference_info:
    print(f"Column: {info['column_name']} - Model: {info['model_id']}")

Reproduction

This dataset was generated using the uv-scripts/ocr DoTS OCR script:

uv run https://huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/ocr/raw/main/dots-ocr.py \
    NationalLibraryOfScotland/Scottish-School-Exam-Papers \
    <output-dataset> \
    --image-column image \
    --batch-size 16 \
    --prompt-mode layout-all \
    --max-model-len 8192 \
    --max-tokens 8192 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.8

Performance

Processing Speed: ~0.1 images/second
GPU Configuration: vLLM with 80% GPU memory utilization

Generated with 🤖 UV Scripts

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