The Giles Ecosystem is a distributed system to run OCR on images and extract images and texts from PDF files. 

Components

The core components of the Giles Ecosystem are located in the following repositories:

• Giles: https://github.com/diging/giles-eco-giles-web (this repository)
• Nepomuk: https://github.com/diging/giles-eco-nepomuk (file storage)
• Cepheus: https://github.com/diging/giles-eco-cepheus (image extraction from PDF files)
• Andromemda: https://github.com/diging/giles-eco-andromeda (text extraction from PDF files)
• Cassiopeia: https://github.com/diging/giles-eco-cassiopeia (OCR using Tesseract)

Dependencies

The system depends on the following software:

• Apache Tomcat 8
• Apache Kafka
• Apache Zookeeper
• MySQL (or PostgreSQL)
• Tesseract OCR (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/)
• Digilib 

Documentation

The Giles Ecosystem documentation (in progress) can be found here: Giles Ecosystem Home.

Running the Giles Ecosystem

There is a Docker compose file to run the Giles Ecosystem in several Docker containers: https://github.com/diging/giles-eco-docker