When Open Data Comes Full Circle: New OCR Reprocessing Software and Datasets Portal for Chronicling America

The Signal: Digital Happenings at the Library of Congress

08/11/2026 10:33 AM EDT

Learn about our new software release on GitHub that is transforming text quality across the Chronicling America Historic Newspapers collection, and how researchers and data enthusiasts can now pull bulk downloads for all 23+ million pages from our brand-new portal. Read all about it!

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