An open-source end-to-end pipeline for detecting, classifying, deduplicating, and captioning visual elements from historical book collections is introduced and an initial dataset of 22.6 million visual elements extracted from the Institutional Books: Harvard Library dataset is released.
Jimmy Mendez, Matteo Cargnelutti, David Lowry-Duda et al.· 0 citations
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 tension has emerged between standard larg...
David Lowry-Duda, Matteo Cargnelutti, Catherine Brobston et al.· 0 citations
The Institutional Newspapers Pipeline is presented, a modular system designed to extract high-quality, structured datasets from historical newspaper scans that 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 wo...
Matteo Cargnelutti, Catherine Brobston, Eben English et al.· 0 citations
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