README.md

OCR conversion

Collection of scripts and stylesheets for conversion between various OCR formats.

You may also want to check out the excellent ocr-fileformat by @UB-Mannheim.

ABBYY

• abbyy2hocr.xsl - ABBYY FineReader XML to hOCR converter @Rod Page
• abbyy2hocr.xsl - ABBYY FineReader XML to hOCR converter by @Rod Page - updated by @OCR-D
• abbyy-to-hocr - ABBYY FineReader XML to hOCR converter by @merlijn
• teip5-v5.xsl - Transform ABBYY Finereader XML into TEI @UPEI
• ABBYY_to_TEI_by_XMLReader.php - Convert ABBYY XML to TEI using PHP's XMLReader @able-project
• ocr_to_teifacsimile.xsl - Generate page-level TEI facsimile from Abbyy OCR xml or METS/ALTO @readux
• AbbyyToAlto.php - PHP5 to convert Abbyy FineReader XML into ALTO XML @ironymark
• AbbyyToAltoConverter.java - Java library to convert abbyy.xml (v10) to alto.xml (v2) @abbyy-to-alto

ALTO

• alto2tei.xsl - Output TEI from ALTO input format @OpenConvert
• AltoToTeiA.xsl - For Gale OCR XML or 18thConnect Typewright XML files @typewright
• ocr_to_teifacsimile.xsl - Generate page-level TEI facsimile from Abbyy OCR xml or METS/ALTO @readux
• alto2hocr.xsl - Convert ALTO 2.0 / ALTO 2.1 to hOCR @filak
• alto2text.xsl - Convert ALTO 2.0 / ALTO 2.1 to plain text @filak
• alto_ocr_text.py - Extracts the text from an ALTO file and writes it to stdout @cneud
• ALTO2HTML.bat - Batch script to convert ALTO files to HTML @altomator
• dinglehopper-extract - Extracts the text from ALTO and PAGE XML files @qurator-spk

hOCR

• hOCR2ALTO.xsl - Utilities to process and handle hOCR @ONB-RD
• hocr2alto2.0.xsl - Convert hOCR to ALTO 2.0 @filak
• hocr2alto2.1.xsl - Convert hOCR to ALTO 2.1 @filak
• hocr2tei.xsl - Convert hOCR from Tesseract to basic TEI output @DH2015
• hocr2tei.xsl - Convert hOCR from Tesseract to basic TEI output from @DH2015 - updated by @OCR-D
• hocr2text.xsl Convert hOCR to plain text @filak
• HocrConverter.py - Create a PDF from an hOCR file and an image @jbrinley

PAGE

• PageConverter.java - Convert ALTO XML, FineReader XML, Google CV, and hOCR to the latest PAGE XML format @prima
• xml_to_box.xsl - Convert PAGE XML to Tesseract box file @eMOP
• page_to_text.py - Extracts the text from a PAGE file and writes it to stdout @cneud
• PageToPdfConverter.java - Convert PAGE XML files with layout and text content to PDF @prima
• page2tei-0.xsl - Convert PAGE XML to TEI @dariok
• PageToAlto.xsl - Convert PAGE XML to ALTO @Transkribus
• page-to-alto – Convert PAGE XML to ALTO (all versions) @kba
• dinglehopper-extract - Extracts the text from ALTO and PAGE XML files @qurator-spk

TEI

• tei2txt.xsl - Convert DTA TEI-P5 to plain text @haoess
• tei2hocr.xsl - Convert DTA TEI-P5 to hOCR @jbaiter

Other

• iw2alto.xsl - Convert ImageWare MyBib eL OCR to ALTO @karkraeg
• transkribus-xslt - Various stylesheets from Transkribus @readcoop
• transkribus-to-prima – Convert Transkribus dialect to official PAGE XML format @kba
• textract2page - Convert Amazon AWS Textract to PAGE XML @slub
• gcv2hocr – Convert Google Cloud Vision to hOCR @dinosauria123