Sample from the logbook of USS Jeannette

The logbook of USS Jeannette, on its famous arctic voyage starting in 1879 is in the collection of the US National Archives. It has handwritten data entries onto a printed form. It was imaged and transcribed as part of the oldWeather-Arctic Project.

Jeannette logbook sample image, alongside the word blocks produced by Textract. Red and blue chequerboard patterns show tables Textract has found on the page.

• Script to run Textract
• Textract output (as JSON)
• Script to plot comparison figure
• A closer look at the block layout
• A closer look at the tables detected