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Project Info ::: 1828 Reprint

  1. Image Dissection

    We have nearly 2000 pages of the original 1828 dictionary (the scan is either from the Library of Congress or the University of California). For each page, we have to draw a box around a word-definition and associate this "drawn box" to a word in the dictionary. This will enable us to find missing data in the current online dictionary. This "cropping" procedure is fairly simple. Click here to launch this "Image Dissection" application. If a page does not have any definitions, we mark it "N/A" and leave it. Other simple instructions can be found in this video.

  2. Text Emulation

    Once we have the above "boxes" drawn, for each box, I will perform OCR and prepopulate the text based on this automated process. The goal of this phase is to "emulate" that text as it was originally published. This will include: verifying punctuation, bold/italics where necessary, and inserting non-English characters (Greek, Arabic, and so on).

  3. Dictionary Formatting

    Once we have updated the text inputs and manually reviewed them so the definitions we have precisely emulate the 1828 publication, we will next format each word-definition into parts of speech, number, formatting, sourcing (e.g., Shakespeare or Bible references). An early prototype of this tool is functional, but will be updated once the Text Emulation phase is complete.