3 papers
cs.CL2026
Institutional Books - Enriched Text: A customizable multilingual open-source pipeline for denoising, deduplicating, and annotating OCR text at scale
David Lowry-Duda, Matteo Cargnelutti, Catherine Brobston +4
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 participa…
cs.CL2026
Institutional Newspapers Pipeline: Deriving billions of high quality tokens from historical newspapers
Matteo Cargnelutti, Catherine Brobston, Eben English +6
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 an…
cs.CV2026
Institutional Books - Visual Elements: An open-source pipeline for extracting, classifying, deduplicating, and captioning visual elements from digital book collections
Jimmy Mendez, Matteo Cargnelutti, David Lowry-Duda +5
Historical book collections contain rich visual elements - such as illustrations, photographs, engravings, and decorative art - that are frequently under-explored in large-scale di…