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-Extract the MODS metadata of a bunch of METS files into a pandas DataFrame.
+Extract the MODS/ALTO metadata of a bunch of METS/ALTO files into pandas DataFrames.
 
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+**modstool** converts the MODS metadata from METS files into a pandas DataFrame.
+
 Column names are derived from the corresponding MODS elements. Some domain
 knowledge is used to convert elements to a useful column, e.g. produce sets
 instead of ordered lists for topics, etc. Parts of the tool are specific to
 our environment/needs at the State Library Berlin and may need to be changed for
 your library.
 
+**alto4pandas** convets the metadata from ALTO files into a pandas DataFrame.
+
+Column names are derived from the corresponding ALTO elements. Some columns
+contain descriptive statistics (e.g. counts or mean) of the corresponding ALTO
+elements or attributes.
 
 ## Usage
 ~~~
 modstool /path/to/a/directory/containing/mets_files
 ~~~
 
+~~
+alto4pandas /path/to/a/directory/full/of/alto_files
+~~~
 
 ## Example
 In this example we convert the MODS metadata contained in the METS files in
@@ -29,3 +39,22 @@ INFO:root:Processing METS files
 100%|████████████████████████████████████████| 301/301 [00:01<00:00, 162.59it/s]
 INFO:root:Writing DataFrame to mods_info_df.pkl
 ~~~
+
+In the next example we convert the metadata from the ALTO files in the test data
+directory:
+
+~~~
+% alto4pandas qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/PPN636777308
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/734008031
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/PPN895016346
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/PPN640992293
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/alto-ner
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/PPN767883624
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/PPN715049151
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/749782137
+Scanning directory qurator/modstool/tests/data/alto/weird-ns
+INFO:alto4pandas:Processing ALTO files
+INFO:alto4pandas:Writing DataFrame to alto_info_df.pkl
+~~~