{"id":41935,"date":"2026-08-01T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-free-archives-of-old-marathi-newspaper-epapers-sakal-lokmat-pudhari-for-an-ocr-text-analysis-dataset\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T10:27:06","slug":"looking-for-free-archives-of-old-marathi-newspaper-epapers-sakal-lokmat-pudhari-for-an-ocr-text-analysis-dataset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/looking-for-free-archives-of-old-marathi-newspaper-epapers-sakal-lokmat-pudhari-for-an-ocr-text-analysis-dataset\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Free Archives Of Old Marathi Newspaper EPapers (Sakal, Lokmat, Pudhari) For An OCR\/text Analysis Dataset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on project involving OCR and text analysis of Marathi newspapers. I&#8217;m creating my own dataset and need access to <strong>old ePapers<\/strong> (preferably PDF or scanned editions) of <strong>Sakal, Lokmat, or Pudhari<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already searched the subreddit and checked the official newspaper websites, but most only provide recent editions or require a subscription. I&#8217;m specifically looking for <strong>older editions from previous months<\/strong> (even 2\u20136 months old would be enough).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking for legal\/free sources such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public archives<\/li>\n<li>Library or university digital collections<\/li>\n<li>Government archives<\/li>\n<li>Any websites that host old Marathi newspaper ePapers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone has worked on a similar OCR or NLP project or knows where these archives are available, I&#8217;d really appreciate your suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/GroundUpstairs5430\"> \/u\/GroundUpstairs5430 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1vcjhcx\/looking_for_free_archives_of_old_marathi\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1vcjhcx\/looking_for_free_archives_of_old_marathi\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41935 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41935' data-nonce='efab05cdb4' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41935 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41935 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I&#8217;m working on project involving OCR and text analysis of Marathi newspapers. I&#8217;m creating my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}