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Loghi tooling

This project contains the tools used by the Loghi framework.

Compilation

Setup langident

Make sure langident is installed:

git clone https://github.com/rvankoert/langident.git
cd langident
mvn clean package
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=target/langident-1.0.5-SNAPSHOT.jar -DgroupId=nl.knaw.huygens.pergamon.nlp -DartifactId=langident -Dpackaging=jar -Dversion=1.0.5

Compiling loghi-tooling

cd ../loghi-tooling
mvn clean package

Minions

These are commandline tools that help process the input and output for the Loghi framework.

MinionCutFromImageBasedOnPageXMLNew

This tool will cut the textlines from an image based on the PAGE xml file. It expects that the PAGE xml file has same name as the image except for the extension.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionCutFromImageBasedOnPageXMLNew -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionCutFromImageBasedOnPageXMLNew -input_path /example/input_path -outputbase /example/output_path -output_type png -channels 4 -threads 5

This call will take the images from /example/input_path. It will take the page from /example/input_path/page. The text lines will be stored as png in /example/output_path in a subfolder with the name of the original image. The images will be stored with transparency information. The minion will use 5 threads.

OPTIONAL PARAMETER: --use_tags for using HTML tag equivalents for the text styles taken from the pageXML:
IMPORTANT: this only works if --include_text_styles and --write_text_contents are passed as well.

  • ␅ underline
    • before: ␅u␅n␅d␅e␅r␅l␅i␅n␅e
    • after: underline
  • ␃ strikethrough
    • before: ␃u␃n␃d␃e␃r␃l␃i␃n␃e
    • after: underline
  • ␄ subscript;
    • before: H␄2O
    • after: H2 O
  • ␆ superscript
    • before: E=mc␆2
    • after: E=mc2

MinionDetectLanguageOfPageXml

This minion will try to predict the language of the PAGE file. If the PAGE file contains text regions it will also predict the language for each region.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionDetectLanguageOfPageXml -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionDetectLanguageOfPageXml -page /example/page -lang_train_data /example/lang_training_data

/example/page contains the PAGE xml files of which the language has to be detected. -lang_train_data is an optional argument, but it is highly recommended, to use your own training data. The training data looks something like this:

lang_training_data
|
- Dutch
- English

Dutch and English are plain text files. The names should comply with https://github.com/PRImA-Research-Lab/PAGE-XML/blob/4f40cd4b68d893b02a6396cf00df3e0e96db0d21/pagecontent/schema/pagecontent.xsd#L1675 The contents of the files should be a unicode text in the language of the file name.

MinionExtractBaseLines

This minion takes the output of P2PaLA or Laypa and uses to update the PAGE xml files of the images with the coordinates of the baselines.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaseLines -help

A typical call for Laypa

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaseLines -input_path_png /example/p2pala/result/png -input_path_page /example/p2pala/result/png -output_path_page /example/output/page/ -invert_image

A typical call for P2PALA

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaseLines -input_path_png /example/p2pala/result/png -input_path_page /example/p2pala/result/png -output_path_page /example/output/page/

P2PaLA will output the page and pngs in the same folder. So input_path_png and input_path_page will have the same value most of the time.

MinionExtractBaselinesStartEndNew

This minion expects:

  • pageXML,
  • a folder with pngs containing the baselines
  • a folder with pngs containing the start points
  • a folder with pngs containing the end points
  • a folder to store the new PAGE xml It extracts info about the baselines from the images and add baseline/textline information to the regions in the pagexml. This version adds the ability to correctly detect rotated lines.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaselinesStartEndNew -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaselinesStartEndNew3 -input_path_png /example/png_input/ -input_path_pagexml /example/page_input/ -input_path_png_start /example/input_png_start/ -input_path_png_end /example/input_png_end/ -output_path_pagexml /example/page_output/

MinionExtractBaselinesStartEndNew3

This minion expects pageXML, a png containing baselines and a png containing baseline start and ending as input. It extracts info about the baselines from the images and add baseline/textline information to the regions in the pagexml. This version adds the ability to correctly detect rotated lines.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaselinesStartEndNew3 -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionExtractBaselinesStartEndNew3 -input_path_png /example/png_input/ -input_path_pagexml /example/page_input/ -output_path_pagexml /example/page_output/

MinionGarbageCharacterCalculator

This minion returns the characters that should not be in the text as a percentage of total amount of characters.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionGarbageCharacterCalculator -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionGarbageCharacterCalculator -page_file /path/to/page.xml -characters_file /path/supported_characters.txt

/path/allowed_characters.txt is a plain text file, that contains the supported without any spaces in between. It should look something like:

abcdefgABCDEFG

MinionGeneratePageImages

The minion will create PAGE xml and the image, written in a font.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionGeneratePageImages -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionGeneratePageImages -text_path /example/text_path/ -output_path /example/page_output/ -font_path /example/fonts 
  • text_path contains plain text files
  • font_path contains font files (i.e. *.ttf)

For each text a synthetic will be created with a randomly chosen font.

MinionLoghiHTRMergePageXML

This minion merges the HTR results of Loghi HTR with the existing PAGE files. The results file should look something like:

/example/image_name/page_name.xml-line_name1.png     This is a text line
/example/image_name/page_name.xml-line_name2.png     This is a text line too

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionLoghiHTRMergePageXML -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionLoghiHTRMergePageXML -input_path /example/page -results_file /example/htr_results.txt -config_file /path/to/htr-config.json

MinionPyLaiaMergePageXML

This minion works similar to MinionLoghiHTRMergePageXML, but is made to process the HTR results of Pylaia.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionPyLaiaMergePageXML -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionPyLaiaMergePageXML -input_path /example/page -results_file /example/htr_results.txt

MinionRecalculateReadingOrderNew

This minion will recalculate the reading order of the PAGE xml files. It will change the page files the folder that is passed as the input_path_page-argument.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionRecalculateReadingOrderNew -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionRecalculateReadingOrderNew -input_path_page /example/page/

MinionShrinkRegions

This minion reevaluates the Text lines of the PAGE xml and shrinks them where needed. The results are based on the image the PAGE xml is describing.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionShrinkRegions -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionShrinkRegions -input /example/images

input should be a folder and should contain the images and a subfolder page with the PAGE xml files of the images.

MinionShrinkTextLines

This minion reevaluates the Text lines of the PAGE xml and shrinks them where needed. The results are based on the image the PAGE xml is describing.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionShrinkTextLines -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionShrinkTextLines -input /example/images

input should be a folder and should contain the images and a subfolder page with the PAGE xml files of the images.

MinionSplitPageXMLTextLineIntoWords

This minion will split the text lines of a PAGE xml file into words.

Show help

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionSplitPageXMLTextLineIntoWords -help

A typical call

./target/appassembler/bin/MinionSplitPageXMLTextLineIntoWords -input_path /example/page

REST API

Pipeline requests

These requests are on the public port of the webservice, that is by default 8080.

Extract baselines

When running old P2PaLA (where 0 means baseline):

curl -X POST -F "mask=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" -F "xml=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.xml" -F "identifier=id" -F "invertImage=true" http://localhost:8080/extract-baselines

When running old P2PaLA with config file:

curl -X POST -F "mask=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" -F "xml=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.xml" -F "identifier=id" -F "invertImage=true" -F "p2palaa_config=@/path/to/p2pala_config.json"  -F "config_white_list=num_workers" -F "config_white_list=line_alg" http://localhost:8080/extract-baselines

When running Laypa (where 255 means baseline):

curl -X POST -F "mask=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" -F "xml=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.xml" -F "identifier=id" http://localhost:8080/extract-baselines

When running Laypa with config file:

curl -X POST -F "mask=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" -F "xml=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.xml" -F "identifier=id" -F "laypa_config=@/path/to/laypa_config.yml"  -F "config_white_list=DATASETS" -F "config_white_list=VERSION" http://localhost:8080/extract-baselines

Request with all options

curl -X POST -F "mask=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" -F "xml=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.xml" -F "identifier=id" -F "margin=30" http://localhost:8080/extract-baselines

CutFromImageBasedOnPageXMLNewResource

Simple request:

curl -X POST -F "image=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" -F "page=@/tmp/upload/id/extract_baselines.xml" -F "identifier=id" -F "output_type=png" -F "channels=4" http://localhost:8080/cut-from-image-based-on-page-xml-new

optional parameter: -F @use_tags=true for using HTML tag equivalents for the text styles taken from the pageXML:
IMPORTANT: this only works if -F @include_text_styles=true and -F @write_text_contents=true are passed as well.

  • ␅ underline
    • before: ␅u␅n␅d␅e␅r␅l␅i␅n␅e
    • after: underline
  • ␃ strikethrough
    • before: ␃u␃n␃d␃e␃r␃l␃i␃n␃e
    • after: underline
  • ␄ subscript;
    • before: H␄2O
    • after: H2 O
  • ␆ superscript
    • before: E=mc␆2
    • after: E=mc2

Full request:

curl -X POST -F "image=@/data/scratch/p2palaintermediate/5c52d146-34b1-48e8-8805-04885d39d96a.png" \
 -F "page=@/tmp/upload/id/extract_baselines.xml" \
 -F "identifier=id" \
 -F "output_type=png" \
 -F "channels=4" \
 -F "min_width=5" \
 -F "min_height=5" \
 -F "min_width_to_height_ratio=2" \
 -F "write_text_contents=true" \
 -F "rescale_height=20" \
 -F "output_box_file=false" \
 -F "output_txt_file=false" \
 -F "recalculate_text_line_contours_from_baselines=false" \
 -F "fixed_x_height=15" \
 -F "min_x_height=10" \
 -F "include_text_styles=true" \
  http://localhost:8080/cut-from-image-based-on-page-xml-new

LoghiHTRMergePageXMLResource

Simple request

curl -X POST -F "identifier=id" -F "page=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/data/page/NL-0400410000_26_009015_000321.xml" -F "results=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/results.txt" -F "htr-config=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/output/config.json" http://localhost:8080/loghi-htr-merge-page-xml

Full request

curl -X POST -F "identifier=id" -F "page=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/data/page/NL-0400410000_26_009015_000321.xml" -F "results=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/results.txt" -F "htr-config=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/output/config.json" -F "comment=My comment" -F "config_white_list=seed" -F "config_white_list=batch_size" http://localhost:8080/loghi-htr-merge-page-xml

RecalculateReadingOrderNewResource

Simple request

curl -X POST -F "identifier=id" -F "page=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/data/page/NL-0400410000_26_009015_000321.xml" -F "border_margin=200" http://localhost:8080/recalculate-reading-order-new

Full request

curl -X POST -F "identifier=id" -F "page=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/data/page/NL-0400410000_26_009015_000321.xml" -F "border_margin=200" -F "interline_clustering_multiplier=1.5" -F "dubious_size_width_multiplier=0.05" -F "dubious_size_width=1024" http://localhost:8080/recalculate-reading-order-new

SplitPageXMLTextLineIntoWordsResource

curl -X POST -F "identifier=id" -F "xml=@/home/stefan/Documents/repos/laypa/tutorial/data/inference/page/NL-HaNA_1.01.02_3112_0395.xml" http://localhost:8080/split-page-xml-text-line-into-words

DetectLanguageOfPageXmlResource

curl -X POST -F "identifier=id" -F "page=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-htr/data/page/NL-040041000_26_009015_000321.xml" -F "training_data=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-tooling/minions/src/main/resources/lang-ident-training-data/Dutch" -F "training_data=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-tooling/minions/src/main/resources/lang-ident-training-data/English" -F "training_data=@/home/martijnm/workspace/images/loghi-tooling/minions/src/main/resources/lang-ident-training-data/French" http://localhost:8080/detect-language-of-page-xml

Admin requests

These requests use the admin port that is by default 8081. These requests are GET requests and could be viewed in your browser.

Prometheus metrics

http://localhost:8081/prometheus

Admin overview

http://localhost:8081/

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