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When a newspaper becomes a wall of OCR text, columns collapse, headlines mix with ads, and reading order disappears. The Institutional Data Initiative (@institutional.org) and Boston Public Library (@bpl.boston.gov) built a pipeline and dataset to make historical newspapers more accessible.🧵
https://institutional.org/posts/institutional-newspapers-boston-public-library/
2026-09-02T16:30:50.406Z