How to convert Tesseract software output (hocr) into plain txt file with fop (generates zero output)?

Question

The resulting output: a txt file with empty lines.

The expected output: a txt file with words of "Привет Мир! Это я, обычный неработающий текст или рыба" text.

What am I doing wrong? Tried nested xsl:for-each code gives out the same kind of behavior.

Answer 1

I see 2 problems in your attempt:

1. Your instruction:

   <xsl:for-each select="//div [@class='ocr_page'] /div [@class='ocr_carea'] / p [@class='ocr_par'] / span[@class='ocr_line'] / span [@class='ocrx_word']">
   

   selects nothing, because your input XML puts all its elements in a namespace. See here how to solve this.

2. Once you have it working, this instruction will put you in the context of span. From this context, your next instruction:

    <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(span [@class='ocrx_word'])" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
   

   also selects nothing, because span is not a child of itself. It should be:

   <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
   

   and I doubt you want to disable output escaping in a stylesheet producing an XML result.