dreamproit/us-statutes-at-large

United States Statutes at Large

Bound volumes of the United States Statutes at Large as published by the U.S. Government Publishing Office on GovInfo, collection STATUTE. Each volume is one PDF and one USLM XML file.

Files

metadata.jsonl           one row per volume
pdfs/STATUTE-{n}.pdf     volume PDF as served by GovInfo
xmls/STATUTE-{n}.xml     volume USLM XML as served by GovInfo
granules/                per-law PDFs used by the conversion benchmark (a sample, not every law)

metadata.jsonl fields: file_name (PDF path), package_id, volume, congress, session, date_issued, pages, scanned, pdf_bytes, pdf_sha256, xml_file, xml_bytes, xml_sha256, source_package_url.

Volumes and eras

Volumes	Years	PDF	XML
1 to 64	1789 to 1951	scanned images, 45 MB to 1.1 GB	USLM produced by GPO from OCR and editorial markup
65 to 116	1951 to 2002	scanned images	USLM produced by GPO
117 to 137	2003 to 2023	born digital, 8 MB to 45 MB	USLM produced by GPO from the typesetting source

scanned in metadata.jsonl is true for volumes 1 to 116.

Source and license

Downloaded from https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/STATUTE-{n}/pdf and /uslm. Works of the United States Government are not subject to copyright in the United States (17 U.S.C. 105).

Produced by the statute-pdf-to-xml project, which converts the PDFs to USLM with Docling and benchmarks the result against the GPO XML.