Work samples
Two sources of the kind that actually turn up, and a page whose word coordinates you can search yourself.
Work samples
Two sources of the kind that actually turn up: three-column Fraktur from a daily newspaper, and a multilingual Antiqua page from microfilm. Source on the left, captured full text on the right.
Fraktur, three columns - daily newspaper, 1924
German-English negotiations on the German gold note bank and the food loan.
(Own telephone service of the „Sachsen-Ztg.“)
London, 3 Jan. Reichsbank president Dr. Schacht yesterday held talks with leading figures of the Bank of England and the City about the participation of English financial circles in the gold note bank he proposed, and in the food loan for Germany.
While City circles show lively interest in English participation in the gold credit bank, considerable reserve is still being exercised on the English side over the food credit, given the unclear position of the Repko.
Captured full text (extract, translated here for readability; delivery is verbatim in the source language). Letterspacing is captured as emphasis rather than as word spacing, and historical spellings are left exactly as printed. Line and word coordinates are delivered as ALTO and PAGE-XML, both schema-valid.
Antiqua, multilingual - journal, 1904, from microfilm
meanwhile rendered a real service to historical scholarship by his careful comparison of the Viennese texts with those already published by the two imperial commissions and by MM. Lecestre and Brotonne. […]
Correspondence, No. 7745. - Ayez soin d'envoyer par votre courrier des numéros du Moniteur depuis quinze jours, soit à Berlin, soit à Saint-Pétersbourg.
Viennese Text. - Ayez soin d'envoyer par vos courriers, soit à Berlin, soit à Saint-Pétersbourg, des exemplaires du 'Moniteur' depuis 15 jours. […]
The Corrispondenza inedita dei Cardinali Consalvi e Pacca (Torino : Unione tipografico-editrice, 1903), edited by P. Ilario Rinieri, is a bulky and valuable addition to the collection of diplomatic despatches […]
Captured full text (excerpt) - italics and accents faithful to the source.
Word coordinates, live
The same page, this time interactive: search for a term and the hits are marked on the facsimile. Hovering a box shows which word was recognised there. These are exactly the coordinates that sit in the ALTO file.
Geometry from image segmentation, text from a double independent reading. 2045 words with coordinates. Source: SLUB Dresden, public domain.