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Some months back an article was posted here about the Library of Congress’s newspaper digitization technology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01583 https://arxiv.o
by tosser0001 6y ago
Some months back an article was posted here about the Library of Congress’s newspaper digitization technology:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01583 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01583
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/ https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/
What they have done already is great:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/ https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
I’ve used it quite a bit and they have some of the best OCR results I’ve ever encountered when it comes to scanned newspapers. But it’s just the tip if the iceberg. Historical newspapers seems to be one of the largest corpuses of material yet to be digitized.
- ncarroll 6y agoThank you so much for the chroniclingamerica link. That is seriously cool. I heard my personal "Dangerous Rabbit Hole" alert when I clicked on it, but what the heck, it's Saturday. I'm diving in and definitely won't be out before dinner.