Extracting illustrations from ALTO files with IIIF

Synopsis

Extracting illustrations described in OCRed documents (ALTO format) with IIIF API.

Full presentation in French

Installation

You will need 4 scripts :

1. filterIMG.sh (shell)
2. processURLs.pl (Perl)
3. extractIMG.pl (Perl)
4. extractMD.pl (Perl)

A batch.sh script chains the commands.

The documents must be stored in a "DOCS" folder. The images will be generated in a "IMG" folder. The metadata will be generated in a "MD" folder.

Tests

1. Open a command line terminal.

2. filterIMG.sh

3. perl processURLs.pl illustrations.txt

4. perl extractIMG.pl illustrations.txt_URL 200 -- minimal size in Ko of the extracted images

5. perl extractMD.pl illustrations.txt_URL

License

CC0