CIABATTA: Manually converting your data
Channel: Corpus & Repository of Writing
Date: 2021-12-05

Crow researcher Hui Wang describes the process of converting texts. 

If your data has links to websites, images, or other multimedia that you want to retain references to, you may need to manually convert it into .txt format. While our Corpus Text Processor and other similar programs will automatically convert files to txt., it will not retain references to images or other multimedia. Manually converting will allow you to provide manual annotations of this multimedia in the text. In addition, some file types save the text as images (as opposed to those having OCR capability) and thus automatic conversion will not allow you to retain text either.

For a more text-based presentation of this content, please see our CIABATTA wiki: https://github.com/writecrow/ciabatta/wiki 

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