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TheBritishLibrary/blbooks

Name: blbooks
Creator: TheBritishLibrary
License: cc0-1.0
Keywords: task_categories:text-generation, task_categories:fill-mask, task_categories:other, task_ids:language-modeling, task_ids:masked-language-modeling, annotations_creators:no-annotation, language_creators:machine-generated, multilinguality:multilingual, source_datasets:original, language:de, language:en, language:es, language:fr, language:it, language:nl

A dataset comprising of text created by OCR from the 49,455 digitised books, equating to 65,227 volumes (25+ million pages), published between c. 1510 - c. 1900. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature.

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Author / organization	TheBritishLibrary
License (as declared)	cc0-1.0
Downloads	826 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	2 March 2022
Last updated at source	17 September 2026

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