finkf/pagexmlcat

cat page xml

pagexmlcat

Concatenate PageXML-formatted xml files.

Usage

pagexmlcat [OPTIONS] [FILES...]

Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output. With no file or if file is -, read standard input.

Options

-h print help

-index comma-separated list of (zero-based) indices to select from multiple TextEquiv elements (negative indices count from the end)

-serial ignore region ordering in the document and use the explicit region ordering of the document

-id prefix output lines with their respective line (or word) ids

-conf prefix output lines with their respective confidences (if available)

-region set region type to output (line|word|glyph|block); default is line

-filename output the filename of printed regions

-norm replace each space with _ in output text

Examples

pagexmlcat a.xml - b.xml Output a.xml's contents, then standard input, then b.xml's contents.

pagexmlcat Output document from standard input to standard output.

pagexmlcat -index 0,-1 Output the first and last text equiv region for each line from standard input to standard output.

pagexmlcat -region word a.xml Output a.xml's words to standard output.

pagexmlcat -region block a.xml Output a.xml's text regions to standard output.

Author

Written by Florian Fink