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Daniel van Strien
@danielvanstrien.bsky.social
Machine Learning Librarian at @hf.co
Thanks! Could be cool to do a few more transformer.js + IIIF demos!
January 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
cc @glenrobson.bsky.social! Finally got time to play with transformers.js and @iiif.bsky.social!
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear.

Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work.

Not everything needs GPT-4!

Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector
IIIF Illustration Detector - a Hugging Face Space by small-models-for-glam
Find illustrated pages in digitized historical books
huggingface.co
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
huggingface.co/nanonets/Nan... might be worth a try for this. Can extract formulas into LaTeX
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The command (using @hf.co Jobs - serverless GPU compute)

Full script at huggingface.co/datasets/uv-...
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Anyone who says OCR is a solved problem has not worked with historic digitised newspapers!
October 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM