International Labour Office Historical Studies and Reports English

This is a collection of English texts based on historical reports from the International Labour Office from the 20th century. The original documents can be found at https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/ILO-SR/

This collection may be used and distributed provided that the International Labour Office is always duly acknowledged as the original source and that the use is non-commercial.

The collection was created with the tools curl, OCRmyPDF, Poppler and the following script on Debian GNU/Linux.

curl https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/ILO-SR/ |
grep -o 'ILO[^"]*engl[^"><\/]*' |
uniq |
sed 's,ILO,https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/ILO-SR/ILO,g' > list_of_files.txt
xargs -n 1 curl -O < list_of_files.txt
rm list_of_files.txt
find . -name '*.pdf' -exec ocrmypdf --language eng --deskew --clean '{}' '{}' \; &&
find . -name '*.pdf' -exec pdftotext '{}' '{}.txt' \;
rm *.pdf