Python modules implementing OCR-D specs and related tools

• Introduction
• Packages
  • ocrd_utils
  • ocrd_models
  • ocrd_modelfactory
  • ocrd_validators
  • ocrd
• Testing
• See Also

This repository contains the python packages that form the base for tools within the OCR-D ecosphere.

All packages are also published to PyPI.

The easiest way to install is via pip:

pip install ocrd

# or just the functionality you need, e.g.

pip install ocrd_modelfactory

All python software released by OCR-D requires Python 3.5 or higher.

Contains utilities and constants, e.g. for logging, path normalization, coordinate calculation etc.

See README for ocrd_utils for further information.

Contains file format wrappers for PAGE-XML, METS, EXIF metadata etc.

See README for ocrd_models for further information.

Code to instantiate models from existing data.

See README for ocrd_modelfactory for further information.

Schemas and routines for validating BagIt, ocrd-tool.json, workspaces, METS, page, CLI parameters etc.

See README for ocrd_validators for further information.

Depends on all of the above, also contains decorators and classes for creating OCR-D processors and CLIs.

Also contains the command line tool ocrd.

See README for ocrd for further information.

Download assets (make assets)

Test with local files: make test

• Test with local asset server:

  • Start asset-server: make asset-server
  • make test OCRD_BASEURL='http://localhost:5001/'

• Test with remote assets:

  • make test OCRD_BASEURL='https://github.com/OCR-D/assets/raw/master/data/'

• OCR-D Specifications (Repo)
• OCR-D Documentation (Repo)