Survivor Library Books - OCR
Collection
Books from the Survivor Library (mostly ~1920s & earlier) OCR'd with recent VLMs
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2 items
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string | filename
string | text
string | detected_lang
string |
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Pottery
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history_of_the_ceramic_art_1873
| "<img>White background with no visible content.</img>\n\f\nPL. 76\n\n<watermark>de Bergmann, d.</wat(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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pottery_for_artists_craftsmen_and_teachers_illustrated-1914
| "<watermark>07-18-2023 15:36:49</watermark>\n\f\n<img>A pattern of the University of California seal(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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catalogue_of_arretine_pottery-1916
| "<img>Image of a worn book page with visible wear and tear.</img>\n\f\n<img>\nA circular seal with t(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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pottery-how_it_is_made_1878
| "<watermark>CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY</watermark>\n\f\narV\n18193\n\nCORNELL\nUNIVERSITY\nLIBRARY\n(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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porcelain_oriental_continental_and_british-a_book_of_handy_reference_for_collectors-1906
| "福 ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧ ⑧(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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the_chemistry_of_pottery-1895
| "<img>A maroon-colored background with a subtle texture.</img>\n\f\n<img>\nA circular seal with Lati(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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marks_of_american_potters_1904
| "<img>White background with no visible content.</img>\n\f\nMARKS\nOF\nAMERICAN POTTERS\n\nBY\nEDWIN (...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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rotary_kiln-1910
| "THE ROTARY KILN\nE. SOPER\nARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY\n1910\n\n682. 9\nSo 6\n\f\n<img>A stylize(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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the_encyclopedia_of_ceramics-1902
| "<img>White background with no visible content.</img>\n\f\n<img>A black-and-white portrait of a man (...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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Pottery
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the_useful_properties_of_clays-1904
| "UC-NRLF\n<img>barcode</img>\n83071487\n\f\n<img>\nA circular seal with the text \"UNIVERSITATIS CAL(...TRUNCATED) |
ENGLISH
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An initial version of the Survivor Library OCR'd via Nanonets-OCR-s.
OCR of the books was completed by page, then joined together. You can split the text col on \f to get the pages for any given book
OCR of ancient books is not perfect - some pages have issues. We plan to attempt to detect these and fix/update over time
More details to come
GPT-4 tiktoken token count:
token_count
count 1.438300e+04
mean 1.498579e+05
std 3.006211e+05
min 7.000000e+00
25% 2.927400e+04
50% 5.170400e+04
75% 1.573685e+05
max 4.910443e+06