Introduction

The Cartographer App provides placement information of zones of interest in (historical) documents. The primary use case is the identification of bounding boxes of measures in music documents.

It is a successor of the Vertaktoid. Unlike its predecessor, the Cartographer App is built on web technology and is platform-independent: through the Tauri integration, the single web-based codebase is distributed as an installable native application for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android — with no separate, platform-specific implementations to maintain. In addition, the app can be used directly in any modern browser without installation, or deployed as a containerized web service (Docker) hosted by an institution for its users.

It uses the Measure Detector for automatic recognition of measure positions, while still allowing manual correction.

Important Tools and Their Documentation