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I've just made available a couple of small developments which we're working on to help us work with the ALTO format. These are just initial releases to the community and are heavily focused on our own needs here but they may well prove useful to somebody else, and I actively encourage community development to improve them. I will certainly be looking to add value to the codebase as time progresses. In the meantime, let me introduce AbbyyToAlto - a converter from the Abbyy FineReader XML document format to ALTO Blog update: http://blog.nuclear-dawn.com/2010/09/abbyy-to-alto-converter/ Code on Github: http://github.com/Surfrdan/AbbyyToAlto and ALTO Viewer - a basic viewer for overlaying highighted transparent layers representing TextBlocks, TextLines, Strings etc from the ALTO document, over the image they represent. This was born out of a need to debug my AbbyyToAlto converter but has grown into a useful little tool for us to use in testing/QA. Blog update: http://blog.nuclear-dawn.com/2010/05/alto-viewer/ Code on Github: http://github.com/Surfrdan/altoviewer I hope somebody else finds them of use. -- Dan Field <[log in to unmask]> Ffôn/Tel. +44 1970 632 582 Peiriannydd Meddalwedd Senior Software Engineer Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales