{"url":"/dataset/rufa","name":"RuFa","full_name":null,"description_markdown":"RuFa (Ruqaa-Farsi) dataset contains images of text written in one of two Arabic fonts: Ruqaa and Nastaliq (Farsi). The dataset contains 40,000 synthesized image and 516 real one, 40,516 in total. Images are in RGB JPG format at 100×100px. Text in the images has varying number of words, position, size, and opacity.\r\n\r\nReal images were extracted from:\r\n\r\n1. “The Rules of Arabic Calligraphy” by Hashem Al-Khatat - 1986.\r\n\r\n2. “Ottman Fonts” by Muhammad Amin Osmanli Ketbkhana.\r\n\r\nThe synthetization process is described in detail [in this post](https://mhmoodlan.github.io/blog/arabic-font-classification).\r\n\r\nDataset folder structure:\r\n\r\n**/rufa (40,516 images)**\r\n\r\n* /real (516 images)\r\n\r\n        * /ruqaa (260 images)\r\n\r\n        * /farsi   (256 images)\r\n\r\n* /synth (40,000 images)\r\n\r\n        * /ruqaa (20,000 images)\r\n\r\n        * /farsi   (20,000 images)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"https://github.com/mhmoodlan/arabic-font-classification/releases/tag/v0.1.0","introduced_date":"2020-07-17","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[{"name":"Images","url":"/datasets/modality/images"}],"tasks":[],"languages":[{"name":"Arabic","url":"/datasets/language/arabic"},{"name":"Standard Arabic","url":"/datasets/language/standard-arabic"}],"variants":["RuFa"],"data_loaders":[{"repo":"https://github.com/mhmoodlan/arabic-font-classification","url":"https://github.com/mhmoodlan/arabic-font-classification","frameworks":[]}],"num_papers_in_archive":0,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}