makeAletheia_mets

Build a Mets file (Page Collections file) to easily work with Aletheia.
See: Page Collections in the Aletheia User Guide. You can also use the METS file for the OCR-D framework (https://github.com/OCR-D/core).

Requirements for a METS file

• Name and path of the image file (without file extension).
• If available the matching PAGE XML file.
• Both files should have the same name and only differ in their file extension.
• The files should be stored in relevant folders:
  • e.g. the image files in the folder jpg
  • and the PAGE XML files in the folder page

Parameters

• imagefoldername of the image file folder
• pagefolder name of the PAGE file folder
• imageFormatFormat of image files
• noIMAGE=yesIndication that no image files can be specified,
• noPAGE=yes Indication that no PAGE files can be specified or are available
• drive The drive letter from windows file system.

The File

The link element contains the path to the image or PAGE file.
Note: See the example file in the example folder. Use only a slash for seperating the folders, dont use a backslash also when you use the Windows OS.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gt>
    <link>[Path to the Image or PAGE file]/[Name of the File without Extension]</link>
</gt>

Transformation

java -jar ../saxon9he.jar -xsl:../xsl/makeAletheia_mets.xsl -s:../example/example.xml imagefolder=jpg imageFormat=jpg pagefolder=page

A variante that no PAGE files can be specified or available:

java -jar ../saxon9he.jar -xsl:../xsl/makeAletheia_mets.xsl -s:../example/example.xml imagefolder=tiff imageFormat=tif noPage=yes