This is a collection of English texts based on historical reports from the International Labour Office from the 20th century. The original documents can be found at https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/ILO-SR/ This collection may be used and distributed provided that the International Labour Office is always duly acknowledged as the original source and that the use is non-commercial. The collection was created with the tools curl, OCRmyPDF, Poppler and the following script on Debian GNU/Linux. curl https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/ILO-SR/ | grep -o 'ILO[^"]*engl[^"><\/]*' | uniq | sed 's,ILO,https://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/ILO-SR/ILO,g' > list_of_files.txt xargs -n 1 curl -O < list_of_files.txt rm list_of_files.txt find . -name '*.pdf' -exec ocrmypdf --language eng --deskew --clean '{}' '{}' \; && find . -name '*.pdf' -exec pdftotext '{}' '{}.txt' \; rm *.pdf