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Open-source pipeline enhances OCR text processing for large book collections

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Researchers have developed "Institutional Books - Enriched Text" (IB-HL-ET), an open-source pipeline designed to process large collections of digitized books, specifically the Harvard Library's IB-HL dataset. This pipeline aims to improve upon standard text processing methods by preserving metadata through annotations, rather than aggressively filtering content. The system can detect paragraph language, identify duplicate content, and compute text quality scores, allowing users to customize their data extraction based on specific needs across approximately 250 languages. AI

IMPACT Enables more nuanced and customizable analysis of large digitized text corpora, potentially improving downstream AI model training.

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Open-source pipeline enhances OCR text processing for large book collections

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · David Lowry-Duda, Matteo Cargnelutti, Catherine Brobston, Salwa Ismail, Greg Leppert, Amanda Watson, Jonathan Zittrain ·

    Institutional Books - Enriched Text: A customizable multilingual open-source pipeline for denoising, deduplicating, and annotating OCR text at scale

    arXiv:2608.19026v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Released in 2025, Institutional Books: Harvard Library (IB-HL) is a collection of 983,004 volumes (242B o200k_base tokens), originally digitized through Harvard Library's participation in the Google Books Library project. As researc…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Institutional Books - Enriched Text: A customizable multilingual open-source pipeline for denoising, deduplicating, and annotating OCR text at scale

    Released in 2025, Institutional Books: Harvard Library (IB-HL) is a collection of 983,004 volumes (242B o200k_base tokens), originally digitized through Harvard Library's participation in the Google Books Library project. As researchers and developers have begun to use IB-HL, a t…

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