---
tags:
- knowledge
- research
- papers
- academic
- research-paper
- opensource
- pdf
- document-classification
task_categories:
- image-classification
- text-classification
language:
- en
---

# research-papers Dataset

## Overview

The **Research Papers Dataset** is a collection of academic research documents categorized by their primary research topic.

This dataset is designed for tasks such as model finetuning, document classification, optical character recognition (OCR) testing and multimodal document understanding (Feel free to use it however you see fit!).

- **Curated by:** [tegridy](https://huggingface.co/tegridydev)
- **Language:** English
- **Format:** PDF | MD

## Repo Structure

The dataset contains PDF files and their associated topic labels + Markdown text processed files

## Usage

### Loading the Data
You can load this data using the Hugging Face `datasets` library. Since the data contains PDF files, you may need to handle them as images or raw bytes depending on your use case.

There are rough PDF > Markdown processed text versions available within: [text-versions](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tegridydev/research-papers/tree/main/text-versions) 

Please review these before use as they may not be 100% accurate.