amazingvince/survivor-library-text

Survivor Library Text Corpus

This dataset contains OCR-extracted text from the Survivor Library, a collection of public domain books focused on practical knowledge and skills from the pre-industrial and early industrial era.

Dataset Description

The Survivor Library is a collection of books that would be useful in rebuilding civilization after a catastrophic event. It focuses on practical, hands-on knowledge from the 1800s and early 1900s.

Dataset Summary

• —Total Files: 0
• —Total Size: 0.00 GB
• —Categories: 187
• —Source: survivorlibrary.com
• —Processing Date: 2025-07-02

Categories and File Counts

Dataset Structure

The dataset is organized by category, with each category containing text files extracted from PDFs:

text_outputs/
├── Accounting/
│   ├── book1.txt
│   ├── book2.txt
│   └── ...
├── Agriculture/
│   └── ...
└── ...

Data Processing

1. 1.Original PDFs downloaded from survivorlibrary.com
2. 2.Text extracted using OCR/PDF text extraction
3. 3.Organized by category
4. 4.Uploaded to Hugging Face Hub

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the entire dataset
dataset = load_dataset("amazingvince/survivor-library-text")

# Load specific categories
accounting_texts = dataset.filter(lambda x: x['category'] == 'Accounting')

Considerations

• —These texts are historical and may contain outdated or potentially dangerous information
• —Always verify information with modern sources before practical application
• —Some OCR errors may be present in the extracted text
• —Original formatting may not be perfectly preserved

License

The original books are in the public domain. This dataset compilation is released under CC0 1.0 Universal.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{survivor_library_text,
  title={Survivor Library Text Corpus},
  author={Survivor Library},
  year={2024},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/amazingvince/survivor-library-text}
}