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+# Extract figures by iiif manifest
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+[![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/git/https%3A%2F%2Flabs.onb.ac.at%2Fgitlab%2Fa.rabensteiner%2Fextract_figures_abo/HEAD?labpath=extract_figures.ipynb)
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+This repository provides a Jupyter notebook that uses a YOLOv8 model to extract figures from a book given the url of its iiif manifest.
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+The model has been trained on the following fives book from the ABO corpus:
+- [](http://data.onb.ac.at/ABO/%2BZ97792402)
+- [](http://data.onb.ac.at/ABO/%2BZ155502807)
+- [](http://data.onb.ac.at/ABO/%2BZ156318706)
+- [](http://data.onb.ac.at/ABO/%2BZ164403901)
+- [](http://data.onb.ac.at/ABO/%Z259182702)
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+From these approximately 1700 book pages 250 contain figures that have been annotated with bounding boxes with the image annotation webservice [CVAT](https://www.cvat.ai/). Training has been done locally with the nano version of YOLOv8. The resulting model for figure detection is given by ()[model_extract_figures.pt].
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