Flight Log / benwbrum/plaintext-to-alto-merge #12

Improve alignment for low-quality ALTO text with missing spans — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight

The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in benwbrum/plaintext-to-alto-merge on Jul 22, 2025; merged in 38 min.

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This PR significantly improves the alignment algorithm's performance on poor-quality ALTO XML files, particularly addressing the issue where substantial spans of text were missing during alignment. ## Problem File `tests/alto_samples/985686_alto.xml` had very poor quality HTR (Handwritten Text Reco…

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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, benwbrum/plaintext-to-alto-merge#12, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/benwbrum/plaintext-to-alto-merge/12/

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