OCR-Manifest

A package to perform OCR on the pages in a IIIF Manifest.

ocr-manifest~ is a Python package that provides a script, ocr-manifest, to download OCR files from a Manifest URI and write them to a specified directory.

Installation

To install the ocr-manifest package, ensure you have uv installed to manage your project dependencies. Then, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository or download the source code.

2. Install the package and its dependencies using uv:

   uv install

3. Verify that the ocr-manifest script is installed and available in your PATH:

   ocr-manifest --help

Usage

The ocr-manifest script processes a Manifest URI and downloads the corresponding OCR files to a specified directory.

Syntax

ocr-manifest <manifest_uri> <output_directory>

• <manifesturi>: The URI of the Manifest to process.
• <outputdirectory>: The directory where OCR files will be written.

Example

ocr-manifest https://example.com/manifest.json output_files

After execution, all the OCR files will be available in the output_files directory.