Institutional Newspapers Pipeline: Deriving billions of high quality tokens from historical newspapers
Historical newspapers are an abundant record of public life, but their dense, irregular and sometimes noisy layouts make computational access to these materials both challenging and limited. We present the Institutional Newspapers Pipeline, a modular system we jointly designed with Boston Public Library to extract high-quality, structured datasets from historical newspaper scans. It was architected so that each step remains interpretable and customizable, and so that the pipeline as a whole remains computationally frugal enough to run on workstation-level hardware. The pipeline runs each scan through a multi-step process: it segments scans into individual type-agnostic crops and performs ...
| Authors | Matteo Cargnelutti, Catherine Brobston, Eben English et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 19 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 19 August 2026 |
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