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Established AI field signal Resource 3d ago
⚡ 5 h early
GLAM OCR model leaderboard launch

BHL OCR Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by finebooks

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David Mimno Daniel van Strien

“Fun fact: I had to adjust the plotting logic to get it to show properly because the model does so well! Kraken OCR library: kraken.re/main/index.h... Model: huggingface.co/small-models...”

Primary source huggingface.co ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago
⚡ 4 h early

biglam/british-library-book-images · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Daniel van Strien Evangelos Kazakos

“Dataset (crop_masks config): huggingface.co/datasets/big... Search + cutouts: huggingface.co/spaces/davan... Model: huggingface.co/small-models...”

2 experts discussed this · 2 posts
Daniel van Strien: Uploaded a dataset of 1,080,814 public domain images, mostly from 19th-century books, to the Hugging Face Hub: huggingface.co/datasets/big... You can also do semantic search against the images here…
Evangelos Kazakos: Uploaded a dataset of 1,080,814 public domain images, mostly from 19th-century books, to the Hugging Face Hub: huggingface.co/datasets/big... You can also do semantic search against the images here…
Lynn Cherny: ah, can you dm me?
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 20d ago

Distilling Qwen3.8 with datatrove on Hugging Face Jobs – Daniel van Strien

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Daniel van Strien

“Synthetic data at scale without owning a GPU: datatrove's new Jobs backend + Qwen3.8-27B → 35,837 length-controllable TL;DRs of Hugging Face cards, $0.43 per 1,000. Full guide: danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2026/d...”

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