On 2/28/2012 7:19 PM, don kretz wrote:
What are word coordinates? Can you give an example of how we might use this?
It provides the coordinates of where the word was found on the original image. This is most useful when you generate a zip file, as the file names in the .zip mirror the file names of the images at IA. Thus, tarzanofapes00burruoft_0010.html matches tarzanofapes00burruoft_0010.jp2, and <span class="word" title="(1540,510),(1606,740)">Emma</span> indicates that Abbyy derived that word from the stated coordinates. (tlbr? ltrb? Can't remember off the top of my head). By using the title attribute, in a browser you can also get the coordinates by doing a flyover with the mouse. Hopefully, this will be useful in creating a side-by-side, web-based editing system that mirrors the Abbyy UI. An end user should be able to click on a word in the structured text editor and via JavaScript the associated area on the image will be highlighted (or reversed, or something; imaging processing in JavaScript is not yet one of my areas of expertise). The reverse process might also be possible. The key concept, though, is to synchronize area of an image with text in a structured text editor.