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nls-highland-news-firered-ocr

width int32 6.3k 6.53k	height int32 8.53k 8.9k	title stringclasses 6 values	page_number int32 1 8	total_pages int32 4 8	canvas_label stringclasses 7 values	date stringclasses 6 values	year stringdate 1895-01-01 00:00:00 1922-01-01 00:00:00	publisher stringclasses 2 values	place stringclasses 1 value	source_manifest stringclasses 6 values	markdown stringclasses 10 values	inference_info stringclasses 1 value
6,514	8,549	Highland News issue: 2033	6	8	6	Saturday 16/09/1922	1922	Highland News, Limited	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2437/3296/243732962/manifest.json	# THE WORLD OF WOMEN. By Claudine. I always like the story of the little boy who was given an essay to write on the earth and began: "The earth revolves on its axis 365 times in the year; it goes round so fast that it perspires, and that's called dew." "Of course," observed Marjorie placidly, her lap full of the f...	[{"model_id": "FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2026-02-28T17:24:59.639861"}]
6,460	8,872	Highland News issue: 600	3	4	3	Saturday 06/04/1895	1895	P. MacLeod & Co.	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2486/4757/248647578/manifest.json	# WEST COAST EDITION. THE HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1895. --- ### STORMOWAY OFFICE—3 CHURCH STREET To which complaints as to the defective distribution of the paper should be addressed, and at which orders for advertisements and all Lewis communications may be left. TIDE TABLE. **High Water at Stor...	[{"model_id": "FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2026-02-28T17:24:59.639861"}]
6,519	8,572	Highland News issue: 2031	5	8	5	Saturday 02/09/1922	1922	Highland News, Limited	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2437/3296/243732960/manifest.json	# EARLY EDITION THURSDAY EVENING. # STORNOWAY. <table> <thead> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: center;">TIDE TABLE—HIGH WATER.</th> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align: center;">SEPTEMBER.</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Sunday</td> <td>Morni...	[{"model_id": "FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2026-02-28T17:24:59.639861"}]
6,534	8,891	Highland News issue: 596	3	4	3	Saturday 09/03/1895	1895	P. MacLeod & Co.	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2486/4757/248647574/manifest.json	# WEST COAST EDITION. THE HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1895. --- ### STORNOWAY OFFICE-3 CHURCH STREET To which complaints as to the defective distribution of the paper should be addressed, and at which orders for advertisements and all Lewis communications may be left. <table> <thead> <tr> <th colspan="3">...	[{"model_id": "FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2026-02-28T17:24:59.639861"}]
6,423	8,900	Highland News issue: 599	1	4	1	Saturday 30/03/1895	1895	P. MacLeod & Co.	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2486/4757/248647577/manifest.json	# PARISH COUNCIL PRINTING. All kinds of CIRCULARS and BILLS calling Public Meetings to discuss Parish Council Questions Printed at THE HIGHLAND NEWS OFFICE On the shortest Notice. CONCERT PROGRAMMES, BALL INVITATIONS, MARRIAGE INVITATIONS, Neatly, Cheaply, and Quicly Printed at the **HIGHLAND N...	[{"model_id": "FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR", "column_name": "markdown", "timestamp": "2026-02-28T17:24:59.639861"}]
6,423	8,900	Highland News issue: 598	4	4	4	Saturday 23/03/1895	1895	P. MacLeod & Co.	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2486/4757/248647576/manifest.json	"THE HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1895.\n\n---\n\n### [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]\n### THE OUTLA(...TRUNCATED)	"[{\"model_id\": \"FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR\", \"column_name\": \"markdown\", \"timestamp\": \"2026-0(...TRUNCATED)
6,492	8,533	Highland News issue: 2033	3	8	3	Saturday 16/09/1922	1922	Highland News, Limited	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2437/3296/243732962/manifest.json	"# HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922\n3\n\n---\n\n### ERUPTIONS ON HEAD AND BACK\n\n**(...TRUNCATED)	"[{\"model_id\": \"FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR\", \"column_name\": \"markdown\", \"timestamp\": \"2026-0(...TRUNCATED)
6,526	8,545	Highland News issue: 2033	2	8	2	Saturday 16/09/1922	1922	Highland News, Limited	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2437/3296/243732962/manifest.json	"# 2 HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1922\n\n---\n\n## MALTONA\nLiqueur\nTonic Wine.\(...TRUNCATED)	"[{\"model_id\": \"FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR\", \"column_name\": \"markdown\", \"timestamp\": \"2026-0(...TRUNCATED)
6,514	8,554	Highland News issue: 2031	8	8	8	Saturday 02/09/1922	1922	Highland News, Limited	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2437/3296/243732960/manifest.json	"# HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1922\n\n## GLASGOW NOTES\n\nA fortnight hence—on Friday, (...TRUNCATED)	"[{\"model_id\": \"FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR\", \"column_name\": \"markdown\", \"timestamp\": \"2026-0(...TRUNCATED)
6,300	8,812	Highland News issue: 599	2	4	2	Saturday 30/03/1895	1895	P. MacLeod & Co.	Inverness	https://view.nls.uk/manifest/2486/4757/248647577/manifest.json	"# THE HIGHLAND NEWS, SATURDAY MARCH 30. 1895.\n\nTO FARM SERVANTS, GARDENERS, AND GAMEKEEPERS. (...TRUNCATED)	"[{\"model_id\": \"FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR\", \"column_name\": \"markdown\", \"timestamp\": \"2026-0(...TRUNCATED)

Document OCR using FireRed-OCR

This dataset contains OCR results from images in davanstrien/nls-highland-news-sample using FireRed-OCR, a 2.1B model fine-tuned from Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct.

Processing Details

Source Dataset: davanstrien/nls-highland-news-sample
Model: FireRedTeam/FireRed-OCR
Number of Samples: 10
Processing Time: 7.9 min
Processing Date: 2026-02-28 17:25 UTC

Configuration

Image Column: image
Output Column: markdown
Dataset Split: train
Batch Size: 16
Max Model Length: 32,768 tokens
Max Output Tokens: 8,192
GPU Memory Utilization: 80.0%

Model Information

FireRed-OCR is a document OCR model that converts images to structured Markdown:

Fine-tuned from Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct (2.1B parameters)
LaTeX formula support (inline and block)
HTML table extraction
Layout-aware text extraction
Apache 2.0 licensed

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 FireRed-OCR script:

uv run https://huggingface.co/datasets/uv-scripts/ocr/raw/main/firered-ocr.py \
    davanstrien/nls-highland-news-sample \
    <output-dataset> \
    --image-column image \
    --batch-size 16 \
    --max-model-len 32768 \
    --max-tokens 8192 \
    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.8

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