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I'm not sure but in theory I would expect the layouts to be less variable with magazines due to the smaller page space. And vLLMs seem to be good at odd text inside images

I think I see the confusing part now. The /subscribe page only is visible once you google auth or enter email / confirm your email exists. It's $9.99/month for the default selectio…

I'm going to try to figure out how to make a subset of the data searchable for free (for anyone anonymous or not without having to start free trial) as well in the next few days, s…

When you're anonymous or google/email authd, you can now see today-in-history stuff. There should be a gentle nudge to sign up when you view a component or go to pages that require…

I'm opening up https://snewpapers.com/today-in-history to the world right now. Per @benwillis's advice below, I will figure out how to make a section of the data searchable for fre…

I see what you mean now with the witchcran. I do instruct it not to correct old-time spellings, and only to tidy up obvious mistakes. I guess it got confused on this one

Great idea. This should be fairly easy to do with the embedding vectors I have for the semantic search, using some clustering tools. Adding it to my backlog now!

Hmm, I just tried to upload the jpgs of some of todays samples to Arcanum via https://www.arcanum.com/en/newspaper-segmentation/try-it/ and it didn't work. I'll try it again later,…

In hindsight it was probably a terrible example to you use, because people will think the OCR is off, but if you click on the clipping (or download the PDF from the PDF link at the…

Nice collection you have there. Just asked the Sleuth for some examples of that, and here's one to add to your Unional National one: https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/episodes/1982…

Thank you, I really appreciate it. I will see if I can figure out how to do that, or like "if you're authed, you can try the Sleuth or get x free searches a month"? The balance is …

A few examples you can click on without having to authenticate or click the free trial (no cc if you do though and I won't bother you or chase you with spam etc...) https://snewpap…

Hello HN, over the past 7 months I've spent nearly 3,000 hours on building SNEWPAPERS, the first historical newpaper archive with full-text extractions, nearly perfect OCR, a vast …

Beautiful visualization! I've gone global :-)