Apologies for not replying earlier.
I have managed to get the attention of WMF staff and they have pushed this
to the right section within WMF to talk to Google.
I suggest that we give them a week to get their head around the issues, and
be able to ask questions.
This falls into the important, though not screamingly urgent, category.
We should have a Phabricator ticket for this. So we can track better.
--Billinghurst
On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 03:13 Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi,
Of course, I am aware that Google' s goal does not match with ours. But I
am talking about possibility of any negotiation in this matter because we
don't have other options but to use the Google OCR tool. If we had other
better OCR options, I would not raise the issue.
By the way, we are not using Cloud Vision API for the script now, so still
we are doing it without paying any money, but this shows that may be in
near future, we have to pay them. I am just being cautious in advance.
There may or may not be any negotiation, either way, we will utilise the
Google OCR fully as far as we can. We will find other ways to do it.
Regards,
On Feb 21, 2016 9:04 PM, "Mathieu Stumpf Guntz" <
psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org> wrote:
Le 20/02/2016 13:07, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit :
Bodhisattwa Mandal, 19/02/2016 18:02:
And when we were getting some hope, Google
announced that they will
charge for doing OCR using their drive.
https <https://cloud.google.com/vision/>
Makes sense.
Is there any chance that WMF will go for
negotiation with Google so that
we can do the mass OCR free of charge?
What makes you think that Google's goals may match with ours?
Just asking will produce more certainty than speculating on matching
agendas. :)
Nemo
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