Installation

You can install from PyPI by running

pip install alto-tools

or clone the repository, enter it and run

pip install .

Usage

alto-tools <INPUT> [OPTION]

INPUT should be the path to an ALTO xml file or directory containing ALTO xml files.

The following OPTIONS are currently supported:

OPTION	Description
`-t` `--text`	Extract UTF-8 encoded text content
`-c` `--confidence`	Extract mean OCR word confidence score
`-i` `--illustrations`	Extract bounding box coordinates of `<Illustration>` elements
`-g` `--graphics`	Extract bounding box coordinates of `<GraphicalElement>` elements
`-s` `--statistics`	Extract statistical info (no. of textlines, words, glyphs etc.)

All output is sent to stdout.