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<h3 align="center">ALTO Tools</h3> <p align="center"> <a href="https://www.python.org/">Python</a> tools for performing various operations on <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/">ALTO</a> XML files </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8+-blue.svg" title="Python Version"></a> <a href="https://pypi.org/project/alto-tools/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/alto-tools.svg" title="PyPI Version"></a> <a href="https://github.com/cneud/alto-tools/actions/workflows/tests.yml"><img src="https://github.com/cneud/alto-tools/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg" title="GitHub Actions Tests Status"></a> <a href="https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/license/cneud/alto-tools" title="Apache Software License 2.0"></a> </p>

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.