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The '''Text2Image''' (Text-to-Image) tool tries to ''match existing transcriptions on page level to a line segmentation''.

Existing transcriptions can currently be specified during upload of the document as seperate txt files
in a subfolder called 'txt'. Note that each txt file has to have the same basename as the corresponding image file.<br/>
Those transcriptions are then stored in 'dummy lines', i.e. lines with the size of the image.

The Text2Image tool first (optionally) starts a new layout analysis on the specified pages, then tries to match the given text to
this layout.<br/>

The user can specify whether ''linebreaks'' of the given text are respected during matching.

The ''threshold'' value determines which matching quality is good enough to perform a match. A good value is between 0.02 and 0.05 but
the default value of 0.0 is also a good choice as erroneous matches can be corrected afterwards anyway.

''Ignore reading order'' makes the process ignore the order of lines as determined by the integrated layout analysis. Enabling this can improve the matching for complicated layouts (e.g. mixed vertical and horizontal lines) and right-to-left writing.

The Text2Image tool was implemented by the CITlab group from Rostock, see also https://github.com/CITlabRostock/CITlabModule