Sample from the UK Second Order Stations Books

The records of the Stations of the Second Order are available as digital images from the National Met Library and Archive. They are a high priority candidate for an automatic transcription system as they are printed tables of data, with high-quality images available.

Second Order stations book sample image, alongside the word blocks produced by Textract.Red and blue chequerboard patterns show tables Textract has found on the page.

• Script to run Textract
• Textract output (as JSON)
• Script to plot comparison figure
• A closer look at the block layout
• A closer look at the tables detected