Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes.

Call for 2027

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A benchmark of six OCR systems (Tesseract, olmOCR 2, Chandra 2, Infinity Parser 2, GLM-OCR, and Gemini 3.5 Flash) on human-transcribed archival documents spanning 1612–1921: early-modern print, ninete...

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The National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and the Europeana Foundation have just published a feasibility study for the European Books Data Commons (EBDC).

Dua Lipa, founder of the Service95 Book Club, has partnered with Livraria Lello to open a physical library in Porto, Portugal.

After months of collaborative development and iteration with the data space community and the Europeana Initiative, we are excited to share the newly published paper, ‘The case for Public AI: making i...

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore all signs that were changed or removed at national parks across the country as part of President Donald Trump’s controv...

Researchers, journalists, developers, and vibe coders can now access the full CourtListener API, including PACER data, with a membership. No contact form. No waiting for approval.

Group has banded together to rescue data as Trump administration has removed or altered data on climate change, reproductive health, LGBTQ people and more

Read on to discover more about the Statement’s unified vision for the public domain, and how it links to our work and advocacy for open cultural heritage!

Two former employees said they believed the museum was altering its content preemptively to avoid unwanted negative attention from the Trump administration.

Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.

As farmers struggle to adjust to a changing climate that has led to an increased frequency of droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events, incomplete or inaccurate public data has become a grow...

We recently posted about the takedown of signs at the President’s House site at Independence National Historical Park. We also posted a call for more photos for Save Our Signs, both before and after…

Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heterogeneous web data of...

Der Dachverband Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID) e. V. hat die Karl-Preusker-Medaille 2025 dem Ukrainischen Bibliotheksverband verliehen. „Ausgezeichnet wird damit der außergewöhnliche Einsa...