* Andrea Zanni wrote:
At the moment, Wikisource could be a interesting
corpora and laboratory for
improving and enhancing OCR,
as the OCR generated text is always proofread and corrected by humans.
As part of our project (
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_vision_development), Micru was
looking for a GSoC candidate for studing the reinsertion of proofread text
into djvus [1], but at the moment didn't find any interested student. We
have some contacts with people at Google working on Tesseract, and they
were available for mentoring.
[1] We thought about this both for OCR enhancement
purposes and files
updating on Commons and Internet Archive (which is off topic here).
I built various tools that could be fairly easily adapted for this, my
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:lists.w3.org+intitle:hoehrmann+ocr
notes are available. One of the tools for instance is a diff tool, see
image at <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2012Apr/0031>.
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