Hi Nemo, that's great news. I wonder though how would be worth to redo the OCR on the archive djvu, as it will be on the archive.org <http://archive.org> but not on Commons... Do you imply that we would need to re-upload the djvu on Commons?

BTW, I think it's past time that Archive.org and Wikimedia start a real partnership/collaboration. With Micru, some months ago, we tried to draft a possible model: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1PNcNlN2oqvajVfOEFuM29sbzg/edit?usp=sharing But I think the discussion died (as did many others). One of the things we could do is a project similar to this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Possible_projects#Google_Books_.3E_Internet_… Aubrey On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) &lt;nemowiki(a)gmail.com <mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com>> wrote: As you know, many of us use archive.org <http://archive.org> to OCR their books: <https://en.wikisource.org/__wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The___Internet_Archive <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The_Internet_Archive>> For a while, they've been stuck with FineReader 8.0. I've just noticed the last OCR processes use 9.0, which has 5 more languages and 2 more dictionaries: http://www.abbyy.com/support/__finereader_90_ts/__RecognitionLanguages/ <http://www.abbyy.com/support/finereader_90_ts/RecognitionLanguages/> http://www.abbyy.com/support/__finereader_80_ts/__RecognitionLanguages/ <http://www.abbyy.com/support/finereader_80_ts/RecognitionLanguages/> I think it's worth re-doing OCR on any archive.org <http://archive.org> DjVu you're using (and you definitely must do so if it's one of those languages). I'm a (limited) admin there, so feel free to give me on my talk lists of items where to update OCR: https://wikisource.org/wiki/__User_talk:Nemo_bis <https://wikisource.org/wiki/User_talk:Nemo_bis> Nemo _________________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.__org <mailto:Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/__mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l> _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Of course, it will need to be reuploaded. Reuploading is cheap, while correcting OCR errors consumes precious volunteer time. Ok, so now my point is: could we automatize the re-upload of a better OCR-red djvu?

We could do that automatically for all the djvu on Commons that aren't transcluded on a Wikisource, for example. Moreover, I wonder if changing the djvu can modify anything on Wikisource: if a book has already been started transcribing and proofreading, for those pages nothing will change, right? The only pages for that will change are the ones that haven't been touched yet. Am I right?

Dispenser kindly made a list of DjVu files on Commons linking an IA item, with some information like global usage: https://toolserver.org/~dispenser/temp/djvu2archive.org.txt (just change the extension to csv to open it as a spreadsheet, tab-separated). It's about 5000 books with 6-200 global usages and 5000 outside that range (which probably means completely unused apart some talk pages or whatever, or with most text already living on wiki pages). If I manage to convince a "slash-admin", I'll get those 5000 re-OCR'd, otherwise I need to do it manually so suggestions on priorities are welcome. :)