Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!
We are hosting the first Wikisource Community meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> of the year
on 28th January 2023 at 12 PM UTC / 5:30 PM IST (Check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1674907242>) according to the wudele poll
<https://wudele.toolforge.org/5tauCFqk8NJQBcBv>.
The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and
conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and
collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and
conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource
communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Triage meetings.
If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on
sgill(a)wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.
Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings> and suggest
any other topics for the agenda.
Regards
Parthiv and Kolawole
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_meetings
OCR is an old problem. There is commercial software, such as Finereader,
and free software such as Tesseract. But is there also a new trend in
home-built software based on new frameworks for neural networks and
deep learning? Keras? TensorFlow? Is anybody experimenting with this
for OCR of scanned books?
When I ask researchers in image processing / computer vision, they
say that plain text (book) OCR "is a solved problem" that nobody
researches, and all research goes into self-driving cars reading
street signs. Is this true, or are there any exceptions?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts, Happy New Year!
So far, we have successfully organised 7 Triage meetings in 2022,
witnessing significant technical conversation between various members of
the Wikisource community. Agendas for each of the previous meetings can be
found here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Triage_meetings>.
Moving forward, we would like to propose transitioning from Wikisource
Triage meetings to Wikisource Community Conversations. We believe that this
change will motivate more people from both technical and non-technical
backgrounds to join the conversation.
The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and
conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and
collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and
conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource
communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Triage meetings.
We also would like to welcome Wikisource Community User Group to
co-organize the conversations.
Kindly share any feedback regarding the same.
Regards
Parthiv and Kolawole
