TheFinAI/OCR_Task_JA

Japanese_OCR

This dataset contains four collections of Japanese government and financial institution PDF documents, intended for OCR research, document layout parsing, and financial text extraction.

📂 Contents

Folder	Description	Source Institution	Files	Size
FSA_Whitepaper	Annual white papers published by the Financial Services Agency (金融庁)	FSA	331	1.5 GB
BOJ_PDFs	Research papers and discussion papers from the Bank of Japan (日本銀行)	BOJ	672	464 MB
JPX_PDFs	Monthly equity market reports from Japan Exchange Group (JPX)	JPX	2246	450 MB
SESC_Report	Annual activity reports from the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC)	FSA - SESC	140	577 MB

Total size: ~3 GB

🧾 Licensing and Usage

All documents in this dataset are publicly accessible from the official websites of Japanese financial and regulatory authorities. However:

• JPX PDFs included in this dataset are publicly available market reports from the official Japan Exchange Group website.
  No content has been modified. This subset is provided solely for academic, non-commercial OCR benchmarking.

• BOJ PDFs are discussion and research papers published by the Bank of Japan, typically for academic and policy-oriented dissemination.
  These are used here under the assumption of fair academic use and should be cited when referenced.

• FSA Whitepapers and SESC Reports are public information releases from Japan’s Financial Services Agency.
  These documents are intended for transparency and public policy communication and are considered public-access content under typical non-commercial usage.

🔍 Use Cases

This collection can be used for:

• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) benchmarking
• Document layout analysis (tables, headings, multi-column)
• Japanese financial terminology extraction
• Training document parsing models in multilingual or financial settings

🏷 Tags

OCR, Japanese, PDF, financial-documents, government-data, non-commercial, public-sector