biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages

Britannica Illustrated Pages 115,293 illustrated pages from scanned volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st edition (1768–71) to 14th (1929), selected by a page classifier from 975,345 pages in 1,160 volumes (838 Internet Archive items). A second config carries the classifier score, OCR word count and provenance for every one of the 975,345 pages. Two things the scan showed: 82% of the illustrated pages are text pages (≥100 OCR words) — figures, diagrams and engravings set… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/britannica-illustrated-pages.

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