I have seen many messy text-image mixes on Google books, especially older texts from manual typesetting days.  That's why I was wondering if it would be possible to have a tool that stores pages as you go, so you can step in and adjust it on a per page basis. I am not familiar with abbyy.xml files, but this may be the way to go

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Alex Brollo <alex.brollo@gmail.com> wrote:
2014-10-01 9:18 GMT+02:00 Jane Darnell <jane023@gmail.com>:
Actually, I would rather have a tool that pulls apart djvu files as they are uploaded; keeping the text in WS and the pics in Commons


This is very interesting since abbyy.xml files contain both a full detail (character by character) detail of text mapping & format, and coordinates of any not-textual content (illustrations) of the scanned page. Using appropriately such data, it would be possible to extract automatically illustrations and other graphical elements of pages. nevertheless, I saw that such "self-cropping" of illustration sometimes fails, and often is confused by some unusual format of illustrations/graphical element, so that many "illustrations" are nonsense or have to be cropped again. Unluckily, djvu files have no such "illustration coordinates" inside. 


Alex

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