This new feature is now live on the ia-upload tool: http://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/ Please raise any issues on Github: https://github.com/wikisource/ia-upload/issues
The conversion process takes about 15 minutes for most books, it seems like. (For books that already have DjVus at IA, it uploads them immediately though.)
Thanks, Sam.
On Thu, 2 Feb 2017, at 09:33 AM, Sam Wilson wrote:
I've been tinkering with the ia-upload tool and incorporating Alex Brollo's better system of DjVu generation (better than converting from PDF, that is; instead it works from the original Jpeg2000 files and merges the OCR data in).
I've set up a test installation of the tool at http://tools.wmflabs.org/ia-upload/test/ and would love anyone to have a go at it, and to report any bugs at https://github.com/wikisource/ia-upload/issues
Because DjVu generation can take a while (quite a while if you've got a crappy slow laptop like me), the tool runs each job on the grid engine, starting every 5 minutes. The queue is shown on the homepage of the tool, with a status of each job. (Unless you're just re-using an existing DjVu file from the IA, in which case it's just uploaded directly to Commons while you wait, like the tool's always done.)
Thanks!