Worked on improving metadata handling in the tesseract-ocr/tesseract repository, focusing on the ALTO XML output to ensure standards-compliant representation of software name and version information. Addressed a bug where the version was incorrectly appended to the software name by restructuring the XML to use dedicated elements for each, enhancing schema compliance and downstream interoperability. Utilized C++ for code changes and applied skills in API integration and data formatting to verify the impact across OCR pipelines. This targeted fix improved the reliability and maintainability of metadata, reducing parsing errors and integration friction for systems consuming ALTO XML output.