Andrea Zanni, 03/10/2013 13:19:
Hi Nemo, that's great news.
I wonder though how would be worth to redo the OCR on the archive djvu, as it will be on the archive.org http://archive.org but not on Commons... Do you imply that we would need to re-upload the djvu on Commons?
Of course, it will need to be reuploaded. Reuploading is cheap, while correcting OCR errors consumes precious volunteer time.
Nemo
BTW, I think it's past time that Archive.org and Wikimedia start a real partnership/collaboration. With Micru, some months ago, we tried to draft a possible model: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1PNcNlN2oqvajVfOEFuM29sbzg/edit?usp=sharing
But I think the discussion died (as did many others). One of the things we could do is a project similar to this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Possible_projects#Google_Books_.3E_Internet_A...
Aubrey
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
As you know, many of us use archive.org <http://archive.org> to OCR their books: <https://en.wikisource.org/__wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The___Internet_Archive <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The_Internet_Archive>> For a while, they've been stuck with FineReader 8.0. I've just noticed the last OCR processes use 9.0, which has 5 more languages and 2 more dictionaries: http://www.abbyy.com/support/__finereader_90_ts/__RecognitionLanguages/ <http://www.abbyy.com/support/finereader_90_ts/RecognitionLanguages/> http://www.abbyy.com/support/__finereader_80_ts/__RecognitionLanguages/ <http://www.abbyy.com/support/finereader_80_ts/RecognitionLanguages/> I think it's worth re-doing OCR on any archive.org <http://archive.org> DjVu you're using (and you definitely must do so if it's one of those languages). I'm a (limited) admin there, so feel free to give me on my talk lists of items where to update OCR: https://wikisource.org/wiki/__User_talk:Nemo_bis <https://wikisource.org/wiki/User_talk:Nemo_bis> Nemo _________________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.__org <mailto:Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/__mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l>
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