Transcript contains Python programs whose job is to transcribe PDF into sematic HTML.
- transcript.py
- Get semantic HTML from PDFs converted by pdf2htmlEX.
- ttf.py
- Recover lost text from PDFs where characters are nothing more than images of themselves.
- pdf2html.py
- Batch process a folder full of PDFs ready for transcript.py
Read the docstrings for more information.
- before http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/files/875315/urn/100006.pdf
- after http://schooletc.co.uk/report/96989#reports
Get Python 3 installed along with latest pdf2htmlEX. e.g. with Homebrew:
brew install python3 pdf2htmlEX
Install lxml under python3 pip3 install lxml or just run the following and get freetype-py too.
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Configure your project path in config.py most importantly the DATA_DIR on top. This can be any folder let's say /Users/[your username]/Desktop/transcript-data. Go ahead create it.
Your DATA_DIR should end up containing 3 folders: PDF, HTML and HTM if you otherwise stick with default configuration. Create a 'PDF' folder and drop your PDFs there.
- PDF is a folder where your PDFs are.
- HTML is where pdf2htmlEX output (non-semantic HTML) ends up after running
./pdf2html.py../pdf2html.pyjust runs pdf2htmlEX with suitable options. - HTM is the final destination where semantic HTML gets born after running
./transcript.py.
./pdf2html.py
./transcript.py
When you change configuration within ./transcript.py or tweak some code. You only need to run ./transcript.py