1922 Film Industry Trade Press Corpus

The files in the corpus were scanned and OCRed by The Internet Archive using Teseract and hOCR. They are the versions which we used in our analysis. The similarity testing itself was conducted via two python script one which downloaded the scans from the Internet Archive, this one can be skipped if using the corpus in this deposit), and the other which compared the text files using Euclidean Distance, Cosine Distance, and Levenshtein distance metrics. The levenshtein distance metrics were calculate via RapidFuzz and were the standard Levenshtein Distance Ratio (LDR), the Sorted LDR which orders the words into alphabetical order, and the Set LDR which orders the words into alphabetical order and then removes any duplicates.