postocr
Script for post-processing text from OCR machines in libreoffice
Capabilities (can be disabled by user)
- Strip empty paragraphs
- Strip paragraphs with custom function
- Find and replace footnotes on each page (using custom iterator) as built-in footnote
- Merge paragraphs (if next comes not with an upper letter)
- Keep only basic formatting: bold, italic, underlined
- Replace dash between digits to middle-sized dash
- Replace canonical links like (1 Паралип. 28, 5–7) to (1Пар.28:5–7)
- Convert pre-reform spelling to contemporary
- Change 'е' to 'ё' (yofication) based on dictionary
Running
- soffice --writer --accept="socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager"
- Open a document
- Run script.py
Current limitations / TODO
- doesn't recognise footnotes continuing on other page
- doesn't reconize links with romanian numbers