I am expecting any response from Ankur Group regarding Bengali/Bangla OCR project which we are interested to use in practical field. Area there any binary file to use offline?
Jayanta Nath Bengali Wikisource Community
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Sankarshan,
Thank you for prompt inisitiative after talking at Kolkata bookfair. Bengali wikipedia community ( wiki source, bn.wikisource.org), are ready to do a nothing except coding to crack this OCR issues. As all you know that, this will not only help for us, it will be the most awaited wishes from longtime.
Regards, Jayanta
On Monday, February 3, 2014, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Rabindra,
Thank you for writing in.
I am replying as a top-post because I have copied in the mailing list we use to discuss project ideas (subscription interface should be available from < http://lists.ankur.org.in/listinfo.cgi/project-ideas-ankur.org.in%3E
I have also added Jayanta Nath in the list. I met Jayanta yesterday (after a suitably long period of interactions over email) and, we ended up chatting about the usual - "how to crack this OCR issue in a manner that helps the Bengali Wikipedia community and, especially Wikisource"
I am glad to note that you have taken a look at Abhishek's existing work. Have you been able to reach out to him and discuss in some level of detail the current state of the work? The voting piece is somewhat based on the concept that a larger number of users of the system can help train the system for higher degree of accuracy.
ankur.org.in will be putting in an application as a mentoring organization. However, the acceptance in GSoC2014 is always subject to
- [1] good set of project ideas; [2] reasonable success from previous
year etc. So, there is a period of waiting before one gets to know about being selected as a mentoring organization and, thereafter begins the process of selecting strong applications from students.
I would recommend that you spend this time catching up with Abhishek and also Jayanta in order to be able to understand a real-life utilization of your project (should ankur.org.in be selected and, you are accepted as a student)
/sankarshan
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Rabindra Rakshit rovir2r@gmail.com wrote:
I (Rabindra Rakshit), am interested in applying for GSOC 2014, and would like to know if Ankur India is applying as a mentoring organization this year also.
I am currently pursuing my B.tech in Computer Science(CSE) from College
of
Engineering and Management, Kolaghat, and being born a Bengali, would
love
to see my language flourish in the open source community.
I am particularly interested in the project about Improving information retrieval methods for OCR data sets consisting of Indic scripts(Info Rescue). I had a look on the work plan of Abhishek Gupta, the final
voting
system in a general(abstract) manner is yet to be implemented.
I don't have any exact experience about OCR, but I do have experience of working with Information Retrieval Systems, in fact, right now I am
working
on Consensus Sequence Segmentation, an Unsupervised Text Segmentation algorithm that relies entirely on statistical relationships among
alphabets
in the input sequence to detect location of word boundaries. I have
attached
a document of our work which is still in progress.
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