Sample from the UK Daily Weather Reports (1862)

The Daily Weather Reports are collections of telegraph observations used to make daily synoptic weathermaps. The UK started producing them in 1860, and they started out as a simple printed table with handwritten entries.

DWR 1862 sample image, alongside the word blocks produced by Google Vision.

• Script to run Google Vision
• Google Vision output (as JSON)
• Script to plot comparison figure
• A closer look at the block layout