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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