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Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
Organization
How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
Repositories
A guide to the different repositories used to store ocr-project data.
Google Drive
Used for image files.
ebnn Repositories
The eb03, eb07, eb09, and eb11 repositories contain all files necessary to creating textual data from page images of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
1-afr-project Folder
Container for OCR-Project files for ABBYY FineReader.

Production
Descriptions of OCR processing, TEI transformation, and metadata creation
- Organization
  How to keep hundreds of thousands of files organized.
  - Edition-Section System
    File organization depends on two basic folder types
  - Folder names
    As the OCR workflow passes through its various stages, production moves into specific folders for each stage. Their names and contents are given below:
  - Repositories
    A guide to the different repositories used to store ocr-project data.
    - Google Drive
      Used for image files.
      - ebnn Repositories
        The eb03, eb07, eb09, and eb11 repositories contain all files necessary to creating textual data from page images of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
        1-afr-project Folder
        Container for OCR-Project files for ABBYY FineReader.
      - information Repository
        Contains general information related to the project
      - metainfo Repository
        The metainfo repository
    - GitHub
      Used for data files.
    - archive Repository
      Long-term storage of image files
  - Setting Up the Repositories
    Create local copies of the remote repositories
- Page Files
  Explains the procedures we use to get the best quality OCR of each page.
- Entry Files
  Procedures for converting single pages into Encyclopedia entries.
- Master Files
  After creating entry files, we run an automated metadata generation process to add index terms to each entry.

1-afr-project Folder

Container for OCR-Project files for ABBYY FineReader.

AFR has a proprietary compressed-file folder structure for its OCR-Projects, which we use to organize each 150- to 250-page page section. The special data files in the ocr-project retain the text boxes and language settings and can be used to output text in multiple formats. The folder name includes the edition and page section name, such as eb09-r01.

DANGER: ocr-project folders contain hidden files by default that are essential to their retention of text boxes, etc. When creating an ocr-project, change the attribute value on the three hidden files to unhidden to ensure that they are included whenever the folder is copied.