Time to develop a wiki, excellent OCR (better. hOCR) multilingual service, isn't it? Alex 2016-09-26 15:04 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com>om>:

On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: Yes, I agree: the IA-Commons-Wikisource workflow is a thing that should be encouraged no end! :-) As far as my work-programming time goes, you (I say 'you' but I just mean 'not-me', for CoI reasons) just need to get tickets onto the Community- Tech board, then I can perhaps look at them. Which basically means they have to contribute towards a Wishlist item. There's Wishlist #44: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120785 - *Implement an Internet Archive-like digitalization service.* I reckon it'd be great to be able to at least upload a PDF or Djvu with no text layer, and have it create one (either on the same file, or to upload a new derived file). —Sam

It's has already been implemented as a WMF tool labs tool by Phe and ia-upload have been modified in order to call it when no DjVu is available in IA. I'm planning to take some time in order to debug the current problems. Cheers, Thomas > Le 30 sept. 2016 à 11:18, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84(a)gmail.com> a écrit : > > > At the moment, we have not a proper alternative and independent environment for working with scans: I wonder if that should be something related to CropTool [1] or Commons in general. > > What I would like to see *now* (for the good is better than the best, if it's quicker) > is a working IA-Upload, with a good support for djvu (because the internet archive's PDF is often very low quality). > > From what I understood from Tpt, the IA-upload tool should already do that, > but evidently there are issues at the moment. > > For people who know how to run a script from command line, > a way to generate a djvu from IA is using Alex brollo's script [2] > > Ideally, I would see this script integrated with the IA Upload tool, so we can use the existing > IA > ia_upload tool > Commons > Wikisource > workflow, as usual. Many librarians are still using it. > > Aubrey > > [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/croptool/ > [2] https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Bot/Programmi_in_Python_per_i_bot/d… > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Sam Wilson <sam(a)samwilson.id.au> wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, at 07:36 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: >> I think that IA Upload tool is a critical step in the Wikisource workflow, >> and I wonder if maybe Sam (as a Community Tech employee) could dedicate some time to it. >> Tpt can't maintain everything by himself... >> For years, I've explained to *a lot* of GLAMs that uploading stuff on IA >> and then using Wikisource is the way to do things, and I'm sure this is the standard way in other places >> too. > > Yes, I agree: the IA-Commons-Wikisource workflow is a thing that should be encouraged no end! :-) > > As far as my work-programming time goes, you (I say 'you' but I just mean 'not-me', for CoI reasons) just need to get tickets onto the Community-Tech board, then I can perhaps look at them. Which basically means they have to contribute towards a Wishlist item. > > There's Wishlist #44: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120785 - Implement an Internet Archive-like digitalization service. > I reckon it'd be great to be able to at least upload a PDF or Djvu with no text layer, and have it create one (either on the same file, or to upload a new derived file). > > —Sam > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l