produce a plaintext edition of the 1st ed Oxford English Dictionary based on page scans hosted by the Internet Archive (IA).
IA did a fairly accurate ocr pass on the pages, and put the results into epub files. Once you extract that text, the most difficult step is complete. What remains is:
- organizing the text into entries
- correcting the ocr output
- adding markup
Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography
Volume 1: A and B
Volume 2: C
Volume 3: D and E
Volume 4: F and G
Volume 5: H to K
Volume 5 Part 1: H
Volume 5 Part 2: I to K
Volume 6 Part 1: L
Volume 6 Part 2: M and N
Volume 7: O and P
Volume 8 Part 1: Q and R
- https://archive.org/details/oed8aarch
- https://archive.org/details/newenglishdictio81murruoft
- https://archive.org/details/newenglishdicpt108murruoft
Volume 8 Part 2: S to Sh
Volume 9 Part 1: Si to Sq
Volume 9 Part 2: Su to Th
Volume 10 Part 1: Ti to U
Volume 10 Part 2: V to Z