Tool: OCR on the Hub
Curated OCR models for documents, languages, handwriting and text in images. Browse four collections with short practical notes. See full post.
Category: Tools
Tool: epub-blocks
epub-blocks is a dependency-free Python library for reproducibly extracting ordered, structured text blocks from EPUB 2 and EPUB 3 files. A declarative recipe selects an edition’s XHTML, assigns block types, and generates stable identifiers without edition-specific Python code or a pre-existing output table. See full post.
Tool: CB-Essay
CB-Essay is a platform for publishing long-form, multi-modal essays and monographs. Built on CollectionBuilder, the framework features longform content (connected essays, books, etc.) in front, with CollectionBuilder in the back supporting media embeds and customizations. See full post.
Tool: WACZ to PDF
A WACZ is a good container for a web crawl. It plays back easily in open-source replay software like Browsertrix and ReplayWebPage. But it’s not always the most convenient format for a non-archivist who wants to read, annotate, print or file away a set of their articles. I worked with Claude to write a small […]
Tool: TALL (Text Analysis for ALL)
TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]
Tool: Manu – Manuscript Annotation & Visualisation
Medieval manuscript research has always required proximity to the object, to the institution, and to the colleagues who share your specialisation. Digital tools can replicate the proximity to the object. The harder problem is replicating the collaborative infrastructure that surrounds archival work: annotation conventions, access management, the handover of notes between researchers, and the long-term […]
Tool: Sourcery App: Reimagining Remote Research
Need to see archival materials for your research but can’t make the trip? Request scans directly through Sourcery’s web app! Local archive users in more than 40 U.S. cities can return reference-quality scans directly to you. In one dashboard you can request materials at multiple repositories to explore new resources or collect critical materials. No […]