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Books form a significant part of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI). However, extracting metadata from these books is difficult owing to variations in style, graphic fonts, and use of background images. This paper presents a lightweight tool to automatically extract metadata from academic books. We also describe results of a preliminary evaluation of our tool on school books indexed in NDLI.
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Code available at https://github.com/dksanyal/Metadata-Extractor-for-Books.
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National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an autonomous organization set up in 1961 by the Government of India.
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This work is supported by Development of National Digital Library of India as a National Knowledge Asset of the Nation sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
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Akhtar, S.S., Sanyal, D.K., Chattopadhyay, S., Bhowmick, P.K., Das, P.P. (2018). A Metadata Extractor for Books in a Digital Library. In: Dobreva, M., Hinze, A., Žumer, M. (eds) Maturity and Innovation in Digital Libraries. ICADL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11279. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04257-8_33
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