Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language, 1898

A.k.a Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Comprising the issues of 1864, 1879, and 1884

Revised and enlarged under the supervision of Noah Porter

Construction

0. Download the ebook from archive.org (as pdf):

   https://archive.org/details/webstersinternat00port

1. Generate images from pdf (req: poppler):

   pdfimages -p -jp2 internat00port.pdf w00-raw/i

2. Rename for consistency:

   ls i-???-???.??? | awk '{printf "mv -bS.bak %s p0%s-%s.%s\n", $0, substr($0, 3, 3), substr($0, 7, 3) + 3 - 3*substr($0, 3, 3), substr($0, 11, 3)}' | bash
   ls i-???-????.??? | awk '{printf "mv -bS.bak %s p0%s-%s.%s\n", $0, substr($0, 3, 3), substr($0, 7, 4) + 3 - 3*substr($0, 3, 3), substr($0, 12, 3)}' | bash
   ls i-????-????.??? | awk '{printf "mv -bS.bak %s p%s-%s.%s\n", $0, substr($0, 3, 4), substr($0, 8, 4) + 3 - 3*substr($0, 3, 4), substr($0, 13, 3)}' | bash

3. Combine mask images, and copy bg (req: ImageMagick):

   mkdir final
   for i in $(seq -f'%04g' 23 32)
   do echo $i; convert p$i-1.jp2 p$i-2.pbm -channel-fx '| gray=>alpha' -quality 95 -colors 255 -alpha Background final/p$i-ol.png
   done
   for i in $(cat <(seq -f'%04g' 1 22) <(seq -f'%04g' 33 2208))
   do echo $i; convert p$i-1.jp2 p$i-2.pbm -colorspace Gray -channel-fx '| gray=>alpha' -quality 92 -alpha Background -colors 16 final/p$i-ol.png
   done
   seq -f 'i=%04g; cp p$i-0.jp2 final/p$i-bg.jp2' 2208 | bash

4. Separate into 0.plates 1.intro 2.main 3.appx 9.extras

5. Re-number files based on page numbers. As an example (from 2.main):

   paste -d ' ' <(seq -f 'mv p%04g-ol.png' 119 1799) <(seq -f 'p%04g-ol.png' 1 1681) | bash
   paste -d ' ' <(seq -f 'mv p%04g-bg.jp2' 119 1799) <(seq -f 'p%04g-bg.jp2' 1 1681) | bash

6. Separate 2.main into 2.xx

   for i in {a,b,c,d,e,f,gh,i,jkl,m,no,p,qr,s,t,uv,wxyz}
   do mkdir 2.$i; done && cd 2.main
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.a/'       1  108 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.b/'     109  198 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.c/'     199  363 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.d/'     364  463 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.e/'     464  534 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.f/'     535  605 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.gh/'    606  722 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.i/'     723  793 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.jkl/'   794  877 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.m/'     878  960 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.no/'    961 1027 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.p/'    1028 1170 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.qr/'   1171 1263 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.s/'    1264 1465 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.t/'    1466 1559 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.uv/'   1560 1620 | bash
   seq -f 'mv p%04g-??.??? ../2.wxyz/' 1621 1681 | bash

7. Parts of text in a few pages were distorted from damages. A copy of such pages, taken from another source (1, 2), can be found in z.fixes.

License

This work is believed to be in the public domain. For more details, visit the archive.org link above.