Good initiative Belayet Bhai. Carry on. I am with you & let me know if you
need any kind of help for this project. And regarding OCR, you can test
this OCR
Jayanta Da
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Belayet Hossain <bellayet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Wikimedians,
I would love to share with you an idea, that I've planned to improve
Bangla Wikisource (
http://bn.wikisouce.org) contents by typing digitized
(PDF, DjVu) books now available at Public domain license. Target people for
this plan is students of school, college and universities.
The basic idea is Bangla does not have any good OCR to work. But there are
lots of digitized public domain books are available at internet as well
printed public domain books in reality. So we have to type the books to
make it in Unicode. So run series of type-a-thon event in educational
institutions where student can learn how to type Bangla using Bangla
Wikisource integrated typing tools. They can practice Bangla typing with
the Bangla Wikisource ProofReading extention page by typing the PDF or DjVu
pages uploaded at Bangla Wikisource or Commons. They will also lean about
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Bangla. That's a way we can
improve and increase Bangla Wikisource contents and also enable students to
contribute in Bangla Wikimedia projects.
I made a draft the idea at the meta page[1] with some more explanations
and more details. I would like to invite you to join the plan, improve it
and make it success by discuss it, with your comments, suggestions and your
active participations.
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Capacitate_student_in_Bangla_typi…
[2]Click
here<http://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%…
see an example of pdf book at bn Wikisource.
Regards,
Belayet
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