altomator / ALTO-IIIF

Extracting illustrations from ALTO documents with IIIF

Extracting illustrations from ALTO files with IIIF

Synopsis

Extracting illustrations described in OCRed documents (ALTO format) with IIIF API.

Full presentation in French

Installation

You will need 4 scripts :

1. filterIMG.sh (shell)
2. processURLs.pl (Perl)
3. extractIMG.pl (Perl)
4. extractMD.pl (Perl)

A batch.sh script chains the commands.

The documents must be stored in a "DOCS" folder. The images will be generated in a "IMG" folder. The metadata will be generated in a "MD" folder.

Tests

1. Open a command line terminal.

2. filterIMG.sh

3. perl processURLs.pl illustrations.txt

4. perl extractIMG.pl illustrations.txt_URL 200 -- minimal size in Ko of the extracted images

5. perl extractMD.pl illustrations.txt_URL

License

CC0