Alice reading examples, version 1 (2026-09-20)

Work: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), 1865.
English transcription source: Project Gutenberg ebook #11.
Item and rights statement: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11
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Verified 2026-09-20. The item states "Public domain in the USA."
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The downloaded text and EPUB were checked against the item. We extracted:
- Chapter I: the opening two paragraphs, beginning "Alice was beginning".
- Chapter II: two consecutive paragraphs beginning "Just then her head".
These are short excerpts, NOT complete chapters or a complete book.
Line wrapping and emphasis markers were normalised; English wording is preserved.
No illustrations, cover art or modern published translations are used.

alice-text.pdf: newly typeset, selectable English text, two pages.
alice-scan.pdf: image-only rendering of those same pages; intentionally no text layer.
page-1.png and page-2.png: previews of those pages.
alice-excerpts.epub: newly packaged English excerpts, two contents entries.
The EPUB is the ORIGINAL ENGLISH sample, not a translated EPUB export.

The website's Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean translations were newly
prepared with AI assistance for this reading example. They are not taken from
published translations, not live LangBox translation results and not a performance
benchmark. They have not had independent professional translation review.
New sample formatting and translations are dedicated to CC0 1.0:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
This dedication applies to the new sample material, not the site's software or brand.

Build: landing/scripts/build-document-samples.py
Pinned text and translations: landing/src/data/alice-sample.json

OCR demonstration: ocr-page-1.txt is uncorrected local Tesseract English OCR
of page-1.png. It recognises the story but misreads the chapter I as | and
CC0 as CCO. Command: tesseract page-1.png ocr-page-1 -l eng
This is an OCR example, not a LangBox service or translation benchmark.

Source download SHA-256 (2026-09-20):
epub: d6524a6b578de2fe63f9cf6e8be010158560ca32f05157e4fa58e6f210707d08
txt: 01b38ea4c710a84bc18d0bd41271a5a1a92b94e97b2812f4dece97d4a694725e