I've just made available a couple of small developments which we're
working on to help us work with the ALTO format. These are just
initial releases to the community and are heavily focused on our own
needs here but they may well prove useful to somebody else, and I
actively encourage community development to improve them. I will
certainly be looking to add value to the codebase as time progresses.
In the meantime, let me introduce
AbbyyToAlto - a converter from the Abbyy FineReader XML document
format to ALTO
Blog update: http://blog.nuclear-dawn.com/2010/09/abbyy-to-alto-converter/
Code on Github: http://github.com/Surfrdan/AbbyyToAlto
and
ALTO Viewer - a basic viewer for overlaying highighted transparent
layers representing TextBlocks, TextLines, Strings etc from the ALTO
document, over the image they represent. This was born out of a need
to debug my AbbyyToAlto converter but has grown into a useful little
tool for us to use in testing/QA.
Blog update: http://blog.nuclear-dawn.com/2010/05/alto-viewer/
Code on Github: http://github.com/Surfrdan/altoviewer
I hope somebody else finds them of use.
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Dan Field <[email protected]> Ffôn/Tel. +44 1970 632 582
Peiriannydd Meddalwedd Senior Software Engineer
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales
