Looking for mostly text .tif files

Scanned? I meant no...

Call your county recorder -- most have gone digital, they're public records available to anyone so there's no privacy issues about disclosure, so they may be able to just dump a bunch of a thumbdrive or CD for you.

Also, the free version of http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php will let you print almost anything to a TIF, with the option to save as Group4 and 1-bit scans, like a fax and like most OCR enjoys. So, load a large Wikileaks file, print it to a TIF using bullzip, and you'll have your TIFF version.

What are the parameters of what you need? Does it need to be scanned? If not, there are tons of utilities that will export a PDF as a series of TIFFs, and PDFs abound.

Getting PDF's first? Could do that, but it isn't optimal. When I poked around wikileaks I only found emails embedded in HTML pages. I like the county recorder idea though Scanned? Yes. It's a document review program that converts tif to txt, creates a thumbnail, that sort of thing

If you will drop the "TIFF" requirement up front, you might get more sources. ImageMagick will convert a batch of images to whatever format you want.

The .tif is not really a requirement, I use imagemagick, or graphicsmagick, I forget which, to convert from image to text, and image, But tiff is better, because that what the people I know actually used for document review projects. You're right though, in the end I'll probably be using PDF's

http://archive.org/details/opensource_English They are in pdf, but it should not be difficult to separate the pdfs into individual images.

Internet Archive is a good idea, not exactly what I was looking for, but it might have to do