Text output badly formatted

[Anterotesis]

I'm trying out the command line version of OpenConvert on the recently released British Library alto xml, aiming to turn it into plain text.
Although I have OpenConvert working on a sample (test4.xml, attached to this report in zip format), the text is very badly formatted. Each word is on a separate line, with 6 tabs before it, a blank line between each word, and 454 (!) blank lines between the header information and the first page text.
The online version of OpenConvert is formats the text very well.

(Using Mac OS X 10.11.6, & Java 1.8.112 in case that matters.)

test4.xml.zip

[JessedeDoes]

Dear John,

You are right, the plain text output from ALTO is execrable.
The reason is that conversion takes place indirectly, ALTO --> tokenized TEI with zoning --> plain text.
The final TEI to plain text step introduces the white space.
In the online version, the route is ALTO --> TEI --> Formatted HTML.

Currently I do not have the time to fix this. I will see what I can do next week.

Best,
Jesse

Van: John Levin [mailto:notifications@github.com]
Verzonden: maandag 14 november 2016 23:04
Aan: INL/OpenConvert
Onderwerp: [INL/OpenConvert] Text output badly formatted (#3)

I'm trying out the command line version of OpenConvert on the recently released British Library alto xml, aiming to turn it into plain text.
Although I have OpenConvert working on a sample (test4.xml, attached to this report in zip format), the text is very badly formatted. Each word is on a separate line, with 6 tabs before it, a blank line between each word, and 454 (!) blank lines between the header information and the first page text.
The online version of OpenConvert is formats the text very well.

(Using Mac OS X 10.11.6, & Java 1.8.112 in case that matters.)

test4.xml.ziphttps://github.com/INL/OpenConvert/files/590598/test4.xml.zip

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