Editorial Office Protocols
Automated checking protocols
Running the Image Checker
1. Copy a tab-delimited text version of the excel spreadsheet to be checked into the ‘parser_input’ folder.
Rename this file ‘input.txt’.
Also, copy the ‘listings.txt’ file into this folder.
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2. Open up a terminal shell (on toolbar). Navigate to the folder ‘Documents/parser_image_check/’ and press enter.
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3. Type the following on the command line and press enter.
java -jar checkimages.jar -f /Users/eo/Documents/parser_image_check/input.properties
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4. By pressing enter, you will run the image checker program.
You will see something like the following:
DO YOU WISH TO PROCEED? Y/N
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5. Press ‘y’.
You will see a list of filenames, which will end with something like this.
********* FINISHED **********
Number of Rows transformed: 8
sbms07689:parser_image_check eo$
Ensure that the number of rows transformed is equivalent to the number of submissions in the spreadsheet.
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An error report entitled ‘image_error_report.txt’ will have been generated in the ‘parser_error_report’ folder.
