Extracting content from spesific address books
Project description
historical-text-extraction (hte)
Package to extract text from historical documents. The package is written for personal use.
Installation
The current release from the PyPI repository:
pip install hte
The development version from GitHub with:
pip install git+ssh://git@github.com/eirikberger/hte.git
Note that it is nessecary with a SSH key for this approach to work.
Using it
Import the package
from hte import digitize
The basic setup is the following:
# Define class
book = digitize.Book("data/finnmark_1968.pdf", "books")
# Run methods on the class
book.CreateFolderStructure()
book.PdfImport(page_info=False, from_page=21, to_page=263)
book.Split(multiple_columns=True)
book.RunOCR(type="splits", export_image=False)
book.CombineCleanGroup(ocr_grouping=True, group_type='norway')
book.RegexStructure("norway")
Make sure to install the correct language package for Tesseract.
# Check languages already installed:
tesseract --list-langs
# Languages available for installation
apt-cache search tesseract-ocr
# Install the Norwegian language pack
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-nor
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