Thanks to Shiju for this email. Using Wikisource for digitizing books
is a very fun experience. I do it quite a lot. It is fun even without
OCR, although OCR makes things easier, of course.
It is useful to a lot of people, too. It's a shame that Wikisource is
so frequently overlooked :)
A technical comment: As far as i know, the technical differences
between PDF and DjVu are not very impotant. If you already have a PDF
of a book that you want to digitize on Wikisource, you don't have to
convert it to DjVu, because Wikisource works with both.
2012/3/24 Shiju Alex <shiju(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
Dear Wikimedians,
This mail is more relevant to wikimedians working in Wiksiource.
Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or
about using Proofread
extension).
http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisour…
Post is also placed in metawiki
at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_o…
Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this
method extensively to digitize the books. But some other communities are not
aware about the use of such an extension.
This post is for sharing the best practices from differenent Indic wiki
communities. Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices
and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This
is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are
similar for Indic wiki communities.
Shiju Alex
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