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What is this?

An extractor for PDF files which converts to:

  • PNG files (one per page)
  • Alto XML files (this is the native format of Tesseract)
  • JSON files - a direct conversion of the Tesseract XML

How does this work?

It uses some shell tools to do the hard lifting:

  • ImageMagic for PDF to PNG conversion
  • Tesseract OCR for PNG to Alto XML conversion
  • Xsltpoc and a stylesheet for XML to JSON conversion

How do I run this?

The wrapper script can either run the local commands using packages you installed on your machine, or act as a front-end to using a Docker image which has all the required packages pre-installed.

./run.sh -h