c-jordi / pdf2data

A pdf segmentation and annotation tool for archival documents.

pdf2data : A pdf segmentation and annotation tool for archival documents.

🚧 IN DEVELOPMENT 🚧

From the Chair of Systems Design, ETHZ and the Swiss Data Science Center.

💡 Vision

Develop an open source and user-friendly tool for technical and non-technical users that performs page, block & textline segmentation and combines both manual & automatic annotation.

🎥 Preview

🔥 Features

• Structure your work into project and case studies.
• Upload your pdf files.
• Annotate the results of the segmentation algorithm using the interactive dashboard.
• Automate the training of a classification algorithm.
• Export your results for further analysis.

🚀 Quickstart

Development

Start the message broker:

docker-compose up

Start the backend:

source server/venv/bin/activate
make run

Start the worker:

source server/venv/bin/activate
make worker

Start the client:

cd client
yarn start

🧮 Data Composition

📚 Stack

• Node.js and React.js deliver the interactive dashboard.
• Tornado runs the data backend.
• Celery with a RabbitMQ backend operates the execution of asynchronous tasks.