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@wikimedia.org> wrote:

That's really promising!

Thank you for sharing this.

   A.

On Oct 17, 2017 00:11, "Alex Brollo" <alex.brollo@gmail.com> wrote:

Here: 

Pagina:D'Ayala_-_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 (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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