Hi,
For a long time Indic languages Wikisource projects depended totally on manual proofreading, which not only wasted a lot of time, but also a lot of energy. Recently Google has released OCR software for more than 20 Indic languages, along with other Asian languages. This software is far far better and accurate than the previous OCRs. But it has many limitations. Uploading the same large file two times (one time for Google OCR and another at Commons) is not an easy solution for most of the contributors, as Internet connection is way slow in India. Now if we develop a tool which can feed the uploaded pdf or djvu files of Commons directly to Google OCRs, so that uploading them 2 times can be avoided.
This was proposed in 2015 community wishlist. Now, as the voting procedure for the wishlist has been started, the proposal needs your support. Please follow the link-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#To...
FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs)
Regards
What about Sanskrit India's first international language.
-----Original Message----- From: "Bodhisattwa Mandal" bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com Sent: 01-12-2015 20:04 To: "Wikimedians in and from West Bengal, India" wikimedia-in-wb@lists.wikimedia.org; "wikimediaindia-l" wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015community wishlist
Hi,
For a long time Indic languages Wikisource projects depended totally on manual proofreading, which not only wasted a lot of time, but also a lot of energy. Recently Google has released OCR software for more than 20 Indic languages, along with other Asian languages. This software is far far better and accurate than the previous OCRs. But it has many limitations. Uploading the same large file two times (one time for Google OCR and another at Commons) is not an easy solution for most of the contributors, as Internet connection is way slow in India. Now if we develop a tool which can feed the uploaded pdf or djvu files of Commons directly to Google OCRs, so that uploading them 2 times can be avoided.
This was proposed in 2015 community wishlist. Now, as the voting procedure for the wishlist has been started, the proposal needs your support. Please follow the link-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#To...
FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs)
Regards
Hello, AKB, We have a separate mailing list for Sanskrit Wikipedia, please join: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l Let's discuss Bengali Wikipedia in this mailing list :)
On 1 December 2015 at 20:22, AKB akb.now@gmail.com wrote:
What about Sanskrit India's first international language.
-----Original Message----- From: "Bodhisattwa Mandal" bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com Sent: 01-12-2015 20:04 To: "Wikimedians in and from West Bengal, India" < wikimedia-in-wb@lists.wikimedia.org>; "wikimediaindia-l" < wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015community wishlist
Hi,
For a long time Indic languages Wikisource projects depended totally on manual proofreading, which not only wasted a lot of time, but also a lot of energy. Recently Google has released OCR software for more than 20 Indic languages, along with other Asian languages. This software is far far better and accurate than the previous OCRs. But it has many limitations. Uploading the same large file two times (one time for Google OCR and another at Commons) is not an easy solution for most of the contributors, as Internet connection is way slow in India. Now if we develop a tool which can feed the uploaded pdf or djvu files of Commons directly to Google OCRs, so that uploading them 2 times can be avoided.
This was proposed in 2015 community wishlist. Now, as the voting procedure for the wishlist has been started, the proposal needs your support. Please follow the link-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#To...
FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs)
Regards
Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia
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OK so sorry
-----Original Message----- From: "Tito Dutta" trulytito@gmail.com Sent: 01-12-2015 20:35 To: "Wikimedians in and from West Bengal, India" wikimedia-in-wb@lists.wikimedia.org; "Bodhisattwa Mandal" bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com Cc: "wikimediaindia-l" wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in2015community wishlist
Hello, AKB, We have a separate mailing list for Sanskrit Wikipedia, please join: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l Let's discuss Bengali Wikipedia in this mailing list :)
On 1 December 2015 at 20:22, AKB akb.now@gmail.com wrote:
What about Sanskrit India's first international language.
-----Original Message----- From: "Bodhisattwa Mandal" bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com Sent: 01-12-2015 20:04 To: "Wikimedians in and from West Bengal, India" < wikimedia-in-wb@lists.wikimedia.org>; "wikimediaindia-l" < wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>; "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-in-WB] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015community wishlist
Hi,
For a long time Indic languages Wikisource projects depended totally on manual proofreading, which not only wasted a lot of time, but also a lot of energy. Recently Google has released OCR software for more than 20 Indic languages, along with other Asian languages. This software is far far better and accurate than the previous OCRs. But it has many limitations. Uploading the same large file two times (one time for Google OCR and another at Commons) is not an easy solution for most of the contributors, as Internet connection is way slow in India. Now if we develop a tool which can feed the uploaded pdf or djvu files of Commons directly to Google OCRs, so that uploading them 2 times can be avoided.
This was proposed in 2015 community wishlist. Now, as the voting procedure for the wishlist has been started, the proposal needs your support. Please follow the link-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Wikisource#To...
FYI, this proposal was also accepted as a highest priority need at the 2015 Wikisource Conference in Vienna. (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wscon2015needs)
Regards
Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia
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