This dataset contains the training and test set for the ICDAR 2017 Competition on Baseline Detection in Archival Documents (cBAD). A newly created freely available real world dataset consisting of 2035 annotated document page images that are collected from 9 different archives and form the basis of cBAD. Two competition tracks test different characteristics of the methods submitted. Track A [Simple Documents] is published with annotated text regions and tests therefore a method's quality of text line segmentation. The more challenging Track B [Complex Documents] provides only the page area. Hence, baseline detection algorithms need to correctly locate text lines in the presence of marginalia, tables, and noise. The dataset comprises images with additional PAGE XMLs. The PAGE XMLs contain text regions and baseline annotations. Competition Website: https://scriptnet.iit.demokritos.gr/competitions/5/ Version 3 is the version of the cBad competition Version 4 contains also the page region and in case of a double-page the page split as separator.

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 674943