Newspaper Navigator Announced: Extracting Photos, Maps, and Comics from over 16 Million Newspaper Pages!
May 14, 2020
Last week the Library of Congress Labs team shared some exciting news about the first phase of the Newspaper Navigator project. Led by Ben Lee, Innovator-in-Residence at the Library of Congress, Newspaper Navigator uses machine learning techniques to extract visual content such as photographs, illustrations, maps, and cartoons from the 16+ million pages in Chronicling America.
Read more about the project on the Signal Blog and consult Ben's repo, which includes code, a whitepaper, and demos, all available without restriction. Stay up to date on the project by visiting the Newspaper Navigator project page.
via https://labs.loc.gov/work/experiments/newspaper-navigator/?loclr=eacam