# PHTD Line-Level Dataset (Cleaned and Split Version)
**Important:** I am *not* the creator or copyright holder of the original PHTD dataset.
The underlying handwritten Persian page images and pixel-level masks were introduced in the following works:
1. **Alaei et al., “A New Dataset of Persian Handwritten Documents and Its Segmentation,”
2. **Alaei, Pal & Nagabhushan, “Dataset and ground truth for handwritten text in four different scripts,”
This repository provides a **processed, line-level version** of that dataset, created for reproducible handwritten text recognition (HTR) research and for use with the CRHV framework.
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## ✨ What This Version Provides
The original PHTD dataset contains **page-level images** with **pixel-wise segmentation masks** identifying individual text lines.
However, it does **not** include:
- extracted line images,
- standardized train/validation/test splits,
- or a leakage-free partition.
This dataset aims to provide exactly that.
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