alto2tei

Command line program to convert ALTO files to XML/TEI.

Install

Start by cloning the repository, and moving inside the created folder

https://github.com/chartes/alto2tei.git
cd alto2tei

Create a virtual environment, source it

python3.8 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Run

pip install -e .

Usage

alto2tei --help 

usage: alto2tei [-h] [--version] [--level {INFO,DEBUG}] [-o OUTPUT_FILENAME] [--no-facsimile]
                input_dir

positional arguments:
  input_dir             input directory

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             print alto2tei version
  --level {INFO,DEBUG}  set logging level (default: INFO)
  -o OUTPUT_FILENAME, --output-filename OUTPUT_FILENAME
                        output filename (default: <input directory>.xml)
  --no-facsimile        do not include facsimiles (default: True)

Credits

Alto2tei is a python3 migration of the PHP tool developed at Labex Obvil (Sorbonne University) for the TGB project, maintained by F. Glorieux (saxalto).

Features

Alto2tei introduces several new features, including:

• support for deprecated ALTO namespaces.
• support for alto:fileIdentifier and alto:Page/@PHYSICAL_IMG_NR.
• creation of tei:facsimile and support for optional linking to image area identifiers.
• Support for @TAGREFS for the management of semantic zone types.
• Support for the SegmOnto controlled vocabulary.

The aim of this ongoing project is to maintain the typographic support of the previous application and add a semantic support, to efficiently transform eScriptorium exports.

TODO

• continue SegmOnto implementation.
• evaluate for SegmOnto the relevance of text standardisations (e.g. case, apostrophes, spaces).
• substitute tei:sourceDoc for tei:facsimile.
• tests.

Contributors

C. Dengler, V. Jolivet