In this tutorial, we will learn how to operate snakemake to create executable workflows.

In the previous blogpost, we learned about GROBID which outputs TEI XMLs from PDFs as input. We now attain some hand-on experience with juggling TEI XML documents.

In this post, we learn how to turn a pdf into a structured text document. To this end, we will use a tool called GROBID outputting a corresponding XML document for each pdf. This approach has these advantages over OCR techniques to be

• light-weighted: computation takes a couple of seconds vs. 3-5 minutes with tesseract, a state-of-the-art OCR framework
• easy to use: you just need to parse XML
• storage-efficient: the resulting (TEI) XML file takes just some kB for an entire paper
• REST-ful: GROBID can be run locally or remotely

I’ll conclude with a brief discussion of the TEI format (semi)structuring a PDF and with an application of GROBID.

Hi there, I am Max and thank you for your time checking out my new blog about code, data and open science. In this blogpost, I will give a brief overview about me and this blog’s objective.