Stanford created a similar tool for the Roman Empire more than a decade ago: orbis.stanford.edu. ORBIS lets you calculate travel times by land, river, and sea, with options for different modes of transport and travel speeds. It's truly an amazing resource and I'm so grateful they keep hosting it.

If you still want to give ocrmypdf a shot you can try installing it using homebrew. It might help to avoid dependency hell. In principle ocrmypdf is a pretty good. formulae.brew.sh/formula/ocrm...

It‘s a great project. It can‘t reassemble PDFs yet though, it can only extract the content as Markdown, plain text, etc. I‘ve been meaning to write a plugin for Docling to reassemble PDFs using the methodology from ocrmypdf. Your post is a reminder for me to tackle this sometime soon 😅.

Give Docling a try! It can using OCR using a tesseract backend as well as the latest state-of-the-art VLM models. github.com/docling-proj...

Perhaps Omeka-S with the IIIF presentation module or the IIIF Server module enabled? omeka.org/s/docs/user-... gitlab.com/Daniel-KM/Om...