On 17 April 2014 17:36, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
I think Steven's interpretation here is pretty
sound - yes, it's
legitimate for us to do this, but we should be a bit cautious :-)
Infrastructure tools yes, GIMP probably not.
Inkscape, however ... we have such a huge proportion of Commons SVGs
made in Inkscape that it's been seriously considered at times to use
Inkscape on the server as WMF's SVG renderer.
Or Yann's suggestion of better OCR.
Software gets into grey areas like this.
- d.