transcribing tool

Goals: Speed up the process of transcribing scanned text by using a shorthand markup for formatting.

Methods: Uses regular expressions and procedural methods to parse the markup language. Formats the data and uploads files to certain websites.

Technology: Python, BeautifulSoup (HTML parser), some other parsing technologies, regular expressions, chunk uploading/downloading.

Future plans: Create a user-friendly frontend, and apply it to as many types of transcription projects as possible.

Impact: Users of an open-source transcription project have found the tool to improve their efficiency, and given positive feedback.

Code available on request