I am working on uploading my first real text on Leo, and I’m finding the uploading experience quite challenging. The very first thing I notice is that to upload there is no option to upload via IIIF manifest. The IIIF manifest upload option in Transkribus makes it so that I don’t have to download and then re-upload from the archive site (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek), making uploading much faster and requiring nothing on my end in terms of storage space on my computer. I think adding an option to upload by IIIF manifest would make the process of uploading page images much more streamlined. It would also be helpful if pdf was an upload option.
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Thank you for this Serena! We’re currently working on implementing functionality for HEIC and PDF uploads and later on we plan to allow imports via IIIF manifest. Given you’ve mentioned it we’ve prioritised this a little higher than before. If you or others have examples of other cases where it would be helpful to import via IIIF, that would be great to know!
@Serena_Strecker just to flag that PDF uploads are now possible in the latest version (v0.1.4) but please let us know if you spot any problems!
I’d like to second the IIIF upload via manifest – I can pull the whole manifest into a pdf using something like pdiiif (GitHub - jbaiter/pdiiif: Create PDFs from IIIF manifests, completely client-side (with server-based fallback for unsupported browsers)), but as a browser based application, need to scale down the images considerably (30% - 40%) to make a functional pdf. A straight IIIF import would allow for full image resolution and (I’d assume) more accurate transcriptions (though I have yet to experiment with this)!
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