from reportlab.pdfgen.canvas import Canvas from reportlab.lib.units import inch #from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree from lxml import etree as ElementTree import Image, re, sys class hocrTransform(): """ A class for converting documents to/from the hOCR format. For details of the hOCR format, see: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfxcv4vc_67g844kf See also: http://code.google.com/p/hocr-tools/ Basic usage: Create a PDF from an hOCR file and an image: hocr = hocrTransform("path/to/hOCR/file") hocr.to_pdf("path/to/image/file", "path/to/output/file") """ def __init__(self, hocrFileName = None, dpi=300): self.hocr = None self.dpi = dpi self.xmlns = '' self.boxPattern = re.compile('bbox((\s+\d+){4})') if hocrFileName is not None: self.parse_hocr(hocrFileName) else: print "No hocr file provided. exiting" exit def __str__(self): """ Return the textual content of the HTML body """ if self.hocr is None: return '' body = self.hocr.find(".//%sbody"%(self.xmlns)) if body: return self._get_element_text(body).encode('utf-8') # XML gives unicode else: return '' def _get_element_text(self, element): """ Return the textual content of the element and its children """ text = '' if element.text is not None: text = text + element.text for child in element.getchildren(): text = text + self._get_element_text(child) if element.tail is not None: text = text + element.tail return text def element_coordinates(self, element): """ Returns a tuple containing the coordinates of the bounding box around an element """ out = (0,0,0,0) if 'title' in element.attrib: matches = self.boxPattern.search(element.attrib['title']) if matches: coords = matches.group(1).split() out = (int(coords[0]),int(coords[1]),int(coords[2]),int(coords[3])) return out def parse_hocr(self, hocrFileName): """ Reads an XML/XHTML file into an ElementTree object """ self.hocr = ElementTree.ElementTree() self.hocr.parse(hocrFileName) # if the hOCR file has a namespace, ElementTree requires its use to find elements matches = re.match('({.*})html', self.hocr.getroot().tag) if matches: self.xmlns = matches.group(1) else: self.xmlns = '' def pxl2pt(self, pxl): """ Returns the length in pt given length in pxl """ return float(pxl)/self.dpi*inch def to_pdf(self, imageFileName, outFileName, fontname="Courier"): """ Creates a PDF file with an image superimposed on top of the text. Text is positioned according to the bounding box of the lines in the hOCR file. The image need not be identical to the image used to create the hOCR file. It can have a lower resolution, different color mode, etc. """ im = Image.open(imageFileName) # get dimension of the OCRed image for div in self.hocr.findall(".//%sdiv[@class='ocr_page']"%(self.xmlns)): coords = self.element_coordinates(div) width = self.pxl2pt(coords[2]-coords[0]) height = self.pxl2pt(coords[3]-coords[1]) break # there shouldn't be more than one, and if there is, we don't want it if width is None: # no width and heigh definition in the ocr_image element of the hocr file # assuming page size is A4 print "page width and height not available in %s. Assuming A4."%(imageFileName) width = 21*2.54*inch height = 29.6*2.54*inch # create the PDF file pdf = Canvas(outFileName, pagesize=(width, height), pageCompression=1) # page size in points (1/72 in.) # put the image on the page, scaled to fill the page #pdf.drawInlineImage(im, 0, 0, width=width, height=height) # check if element with class 'ocrx_word' are available # otherwise use 'ocr_line' as fallback elemclass="ocr_line" if self.hocr.find(".//%sspan[@class='ocrx_word']" %(self.xmlns)) is not None: elemclass="ocrx_word" # itterate all text elements for elem in self.hocr.findall(".//%sspan[@class='%s']" % (self.xmlns, elemclass)): elemtxt=self._get_element_text(elem).rstrip() if len(elemtxt) == 0: continue coords = self.element_coordinates(elem) x1=self.pxl2pt(coords[0]) y1=self.pxl2pt(coords[1]) x2=self.pxl2pt(coords[2]) y2=self.pxl2pt(coords[3]) # compute font size according to bbox coordinates fontsize=self.pxl2pt(coords[3]-coords[1]) # draw the bbox border pdf.rect(x1, height-y2, x2-x1, y2-y1, fill=0) text = pdf.beginText() text.setFont(fontname, fontsize) #text.setTextRenderMode(3) # invisible # set cursor to bottom left corner of bbox (adjust for dpi) text.setTextOrigin(x1, height-y2) # scale the width of the text to fill the width of the bbox text.setHorizScale(100*(x2-x1)/pdf.stringWidth(elemtxt, fontname, fontsize)) # write the text to the page text.textLine(elemtxt) pdf.drawText(text) # finish up the page and save it pdf.showPage() pdf.save() if __name__ == "__main__": if len(sys.argv) < 4: print 'Usage: python hocrTransform.py inputHocrFile inputImageFile outputPdfFile' sys.exit(1) hocr = hocrTransform(sys.argv[1]) hocr.to_pdf(sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3])