Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc... by aragonite on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:59PM (#47853758)

> But I would love an option (emphasis on option) to see the text side by side with the page images. ... That way, I could "confirm" or "fact check" the faithfulness of the OCR.

You can already do that on Wikisource. For example, here's p. 658 from the entry on "Molecule":

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:EB1911_-_Volume_18.djvu/...

Also OP: I noticed some fidelity issues in your version (at https://britannica11.org/article/18-0684-s2/molecule). For example parts of the math formula under the line that ends with "the molecules of other kinds" ([1]) are missing (compare [2]). Also, in your version fn. 1 of this article is attached to "as they have always done" ([3]) but it should actually be attached to "Atom" on p. 654 ([4]):

[1] https://britannica11.org/article/18-0684-s2/molecule#:~:text...

[2] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:EB1911_-_Volume_18.djvu/...

[3] https://britannica11.org/article/18-0684-s2/molecule#:~:text...

[4] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:EB1911_-_Volume_18.djvu/...

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Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc... by realityfactchex on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @05:24PM (#47854677)

That's cool about the WikiSource parallel text+image page view, TIL. Thanks!

As an example flow (since it took a minute to figure out): we can start at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica then click to navigate/browse volume > section > topic to get to a text page, then click Source tab, then click a Page Number (maybe hunt around for the correct page number), and see the parallel view, text + image. With previous and next page buttons available, retaining the parallel text + image view.

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Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc... by realityfactchex on Thursday April 30, 2026 @05:46PM (#47968643)

Following up, another WikiSource flow is the following:

1. Go to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britan...

2. Click button "Search the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica". This currently goes to the page at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&prefix...

3. Enter the search term and click Search. (There is auto-suggest for some topics, but Search button seems to give more complete results.)

4. Get to the text page of interest, such as https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britan...

5. Notice the left margin contains hyperlinks like [105] whwere 105 is the page number nd links directl;y to the side-by side view of page 105. Click the [105] link on the left (for example), to get to https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AEB1911_-_Volume_02.djv... which shows the text-and-image side by side (for that page).

This flow avoids the hunting-for-the-right page step, by using the direct links.

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Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc... by ahaspel on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:08PM (#47954698)

These were both pipeline errors and they have just been corrected, thanks to your sharp eyes.

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Re:Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyc... by ahaspel on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:55AM (#47975508)

There's also a side-by-side option now. On any article, clicking the little scan button above the double-navigation arrows in the right margin will open the scan at whatever page you're viewing, and it will scroll as you scroll the text.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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