@Sumana Harihareswara
Please look the Bengali OCR https://code.google.com/p/banglaocr/ and its need to developed.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Sumana Harihareswara < sumanah@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 08/19/2013 02:52 AM, L. Shyamal wrote:
Re-posting a now outdated query from meta
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalo...
now that the workshop has already been conducted I think those that have attended the workshop could comment if this cover Indic language OCR-ing
if it did it would be worthwhile if the OCR software used can be
documented
on the meta pages or elsewhere such as Wikisource. Most of the more experienced editors here will be fairly familiar with the use of scanners for creating PDF documents and uploading them to places like the Internet Archive but the experience or knowledge of OCRs and their success rates
is
a bit wanting for Indic languages (fonts).
best wishes Shyamal en:User:Shyamal
I looked at the talk page on Meta - thank you, Shyamal!
For those who do not know: OCR means Optical Character Recognition. When we want to get archival documents onto the web, it's nice to have photos of them, but it's even better to OCR them so that people can clearly read, copy, excerpt, translate, and remix the text.
Is there a central list of the problems that OCR software (especially open source OCR software) has with text written in Indic languages? If so, I could help encourage people to fix those problems, as volunteers, via a Google Summer of Code/Outreach Program for Women internship, via a grant-funded project (such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG ), or via some other method.
People who would like to make Wikisource more easily useful for Indic languages might want to contribute to the Wikisource vision development project that's going on right now:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_vision_development
The ProofreadPage extension (part of the Wikisource technology stack) is being worked on right now in Aarti K. Dwivedi's Google Summer of Code internship. http://aartindi.blogspot.in/ She might be interested in knowing about these issues, so I am cc'ing her.
Also - just because people on this list might be interested! - if you have an old historical map that you'd like to vectorize to get it onto OpenStreetMap, try out the new "Map polygon and feature extractor" tool: https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer
-- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation
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