Hi Alex,
Of course, building free OCR can be the only permanent solution, but WMF is
not interested in building new OCR right now. The language engineering team
said at the conference that, they don't have the infrastructure and
expertise to build such software. That's why, we have to rely on Google
OCR, knowing very well about its profit making intentions. It's just a
temporary solution but right now, its the only best possible alternative
for us.
Regards
Bodhisattwa
On 1 Dec 2015 21:12, "Alex Brollo" <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
... nevertheless I found very interesting this about
"SaaSS":
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
So, to build a true, excellent and indipendent "wikisource multilingual
OCR service" would be a better solution.
Alex
2015-12-01 16:06 GMT+01:00 Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com
:
Hi Nemo,
Thanks for your interest. You can find the list of Google OCR supported
languages in the following link -
https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are we talking
about exactly? Are they included in the recent FineReader versions now used
by Internet Archive?
Nemo
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