NAME

Catmandu::ALTOXML - tools to work with ALTOXML documents

SYNOPSIS

#From the command line

#Extract OCR data, treating each line as a record

$ catmandu convert ALTOXML --file input.xml to YAML

#In a script

use Catmandu::Sane;

use Catmandu::Importer::ALTOXML;

my $importer = Catmandu::Importer::ALTOXML->new( file => "/tmp/input.xml" );

$importer->each(sub{

    my $record = $_[0];
    #..

});

EXAMPLE OUTPUT IN YAML

---
block: 5
block_h: 63
block_w: 114
block_x: 2294
block_y: 2713
h: 38
page: 1
page_h: 3316
page_w: 2904
page_x: ~
page_y: ~
text: '1'
w: 17
x: 2349
y: 2717
...

INSTALLATION

In order to install this package you need the following system packages installed

Centos

* perl-devel

* make

* gcc

* gcc-c++

* libyaml-devel

* libxml2 version 2.6.21 or higher. Reason: the module XML::LibXML::Reader uses the libxml2 pull parser to read xml documents incrementally.

AUTHORS

Nicolas Franck <nicolas.franck at ugent.be>

SEE ALSO

Catmandu::Importer::ALTOXML, XML::LibXML::Reader, Catmandu, Catmandu::Importer

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.