From that page which, Alex has linked:
"On the other hand, using the service for converting document formats *is* SaaSS, because it's something you could have done by running a suitable program (free, one hopes) in your own computer."
Hundreds among us have burnt their hands in developing a successful 'free' OCR tool for Indic languages without any real luck until now. Until such a tool appears on the horizon, the Google facility is just okay to be used.
Especially so, because we are anyway dealing with 'free' input and output material.
-Viswaprabha
On 1 December 2015 at 21:49, Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com
wrote:
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@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@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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