Show HN: Spend Extra AI Usage Transcribing Murray's New English Dictionary

Category: other

Tags: transcription, ai-agents, crowdsourcing, public-domain, dictionary

Score: 3.5/10 (Innovation: 3, Technical: 3, Documentation: 5, Utility: 3)

A crowd-sourced project that uses AI agents to transcribe scans of Murray's New English Dictionary (1888–1928) into public-domain text. It provides a structured spec, validation scripts, and coordination protocol for multiple agents to claim scan ranges and submit pull requests. It's a novel use of LLM agents for large-scale OCR/transcription of historical texts, but is early-stage and niche.

Target audience: historians, linguists, AI agent enthusiasts, open-source contributors

Repository: https://github.com/timjonez/new-english-dictionary · Python · CC0-1.0

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