Thanks Alex!
I really hope this is a direction where other developers will follow: being
able to harness the full potential of structured data from OCR software is
absolutely crucial for Wikisource:
we could actually automatize *a lot* of the formatting work now done by
volunteers, and their time could be spent still formatting, proofreading
and validating, but with much power than before.
IMO, it changes a lot if a book is formatted ~50% by a machine, we could do
much more books in less time.
Go Alex!
Aubrey
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
That's really promising!
Thank you for sharing this.
A.
On Oct 17, 2017 00:11, "Alex Brollo" <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here:
Pagina:D'Ayala_-_Dizionario_militare_francese_italiano.djvu/46
<https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Pagina:D%27Ayala_-_Dizionario_militare_francese_italiano.djvu/46>
and immediately previous and following pages both the text and some
formatting from Internet Archive file bub_gb_lvzoCyRdzsoC_abbyy.gz
<https://archive.org/download/bub_gb_lvzoCyRdzsoC/bub_gb_lvzoCyRdzsoC_abbyy.gz>
(in previous pages only some templates have been added and a little bit
of regex manipulation has be done)
Internet Archive _abbyy.gz files are gzipped, enormous xml files where
any detail of FineReader OCR output is exported - but, even if enormous and
terribly complex, they can be parsed and any detail (a little bit
painfully...) can be used; presently, only bold, italic, smallcaps and
paragraphs have been explored, translated into wiki code by a prettily
simple python code.
Alex
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