filak / alto-tools

Python script for performing various operations on ALTO XML files

alto-tools

Python3 script for performing various operations on ALTO files.

Usage

• extract UTF-8 text content from ALTO file

  python3 alto-tools.py alto.xml -t

• extract page OCR confidence score from ALTO file

  python3 alto-tools.py alto.xml -c

• extract bounding boxes of illustrations from ALTO file

  python3 alto-tools.py alto.xml -l

Planned

• write output to file(s) - currently all output is sent to stdout

  python3 alto-tools.py alto.xml [OPTION] -o