This dataset consists of digitized Pashto printed books licensed by publishers and authors, including rare lithographed editions. It provides original page scans, OCR-generated text, and transcriptions cross-verified by native speakers.
Potential Use Cases
- Pashto Language Model Pre-training: Extracted and verified Pashto text can be used as pre-training data for Pashto language models.
- Pashto Text Corpus Development: OCR-generated text and native-verified transcriptions can be used to organize printed Pashto documents into a digital text corpus for linguistic analysis and natural language processing tasks.