This tool is based on OpenSeadragon and Annotorious, and is intended to be used to images of manuscripts. Use SHIFT-click to draw bounding boxes, and tag glyphs. Then, open the annotation sidebar to see all your annotations. They are listed in Sanskrit alphabetical order.
This tool was created as part of the TST project, funded by the research program FRAL 2018 (ANR & DFG). The manuscript image in the demonstration is courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Quick palaeographer can be used either online, via https://chchch.github.io/quick-palaeographer/, or offline, by downloading the whole repository and opening the index.html file in a web browser. Tested on current versions of Chrome and Firefox.
- Select an image file to load (PNG or JPEG)
- Use SHIFT-click to draw boxes around a character.
- Give the character some labels. It can have more than one label.
- Click OK.
- Open the annotations sidebar (button in the top-right corner) to see your annotations.
- You can save your annotations in JSON format with the Export button.
- You can load your annotations again later (they are also autosaved).
- You can open your annotations in a new window (button in the top-right corner) and then save the complete webpage (
Save Page As...in your browser). Then you can edit it, for example, in LibreOffice Writer.
Important: The autosaved annotations are saved in your browser. If you clear your browser data (e.g. cookies, etc.), the autosaved data will be lost!!!!1
- open the annotations in a new window (top-right button);
- click 'save annotations' and save the resulting HTML file to your computer;
- repeat for all the folios you wish to include;
- for the last folio, when you open the annotations in a new window, use the "append annotations" function at the top;
- select one of the HTML files that you saved. Save the final HTML file. You can later open it with, say, LibreOffice and create a document for reference.
There is an example image in the example/ directory, along with annotations. To look at the example, download both the JPEG image and the annotations in JSON format. Load the image in Quick palaeographer. Then, load the annotation file with the Import button.
The example image is the recto side of the second folio from Sanscrit 611, an Amarakośa manuscript in old Bengali script. The image is courtesy of the BnF.