OCR-D Browser

An extensible viewer for OCR-D mets.xml files

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Installation on Ubuntu 18.04

sudo make deps-ubuntu
pip install browse-ocrd

Usage

browse-ocrd ./path/to/mets.xml # or open interactively

Features

Browse fileGrps and pages, arranging views next to each other for comparison
Show original or derived images (AlternativeImage on any level of the structural hierarchy)
Show multiple images at once for different pages (horizontally) or different segments (vertically), zooming freely
Show raw PAGE-XML with syntax highlighting, open with PageViewer
Show concatenated PAGE-XML text annotation
Show rendered HTML comparison from dinglehopper evaluations

Configuration

Configuration file locations

At startup the following directories a searched for a config file named ocrd-browser.conf

# directories and their default values under Ubuntu 20.04
GLib.get_system_config_dirs()  # '/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu/ocrd-browser.conf', '/etc/xdg/ocrd-browser.conf'
GLib.get_user_config_dir()     # '/home/jk/.config/ocrd-browser.conf'  
os.getcwd()                    # './ocrd-browser.conf'

Configuration file syntax

The ocrd-browser.conf file is an ini-file with the following keys:

[FileGroups]
# Preferred fileGrp names for thumbnail display in the Page Browser 
# Comma seperated list of regular expressions
preferredImages = OCR-D-IMG, OCR-D-IMG.*, ORIGINAL

# Each Tool has a section header [Tool XYZ]
# At the moment the only defined tool is "PageViewer"  
[Tool PageViewer]
# (ba)sh commandline to execute with placeholders  
commandline = /usr/bin/java -jar /home/jk/bin/JPageViewer/JPageViewer.jar --resolve-dir {workspace.directory} {file.path.absolute}

The commandline string will be used as a python format string with the keyword arguments:

workspace : The current ocrd.Workspace, all properties get shell escaped (by shlex.quote) automatically.
file : The current ocrd_models.OcrdFile, all properties get shell escaped (by shlex.quote) automatically, also there is an additional property path with the properties absolute and relative, so {file.path.absolute} will be replaced by the shell quoted absolute path of the file.

Note: You can get PRImA's PageViewer at Github.

sulzbals/browse-ocrd