nederhof / hocr

Transcribe image of hieroglyphic to Unicode

hocr

Transcribe (OCR) image of hieroglyphic to Unicode

To run OCR on image of hieroglyphic text

cd src
unzip gardiner.zip
unzip letters.zip
unzip newgardiner.zip
unzip topbibhiero.zip
python tables.py
python train.py
python evaltranscribe.py

Now look in directory transcriptions for the results.

This is experimental code at an early stage of development.

To run OCR on page possibly containing hieroglyphic text

Assume 1.png is image of page and 1.png.json is output of Azure.

python pipeline.py 1.png

This will open window for manually correcting recognition of hieroglyphic. Save. Edit 1.png.csv to correct hieroglyphic. Run again:

python pipeline.py 1.png

This will put HTML file in folder transcriptions.