[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist

Anyone have any suggestions to this issue raised on the Wikisource-L mailing list? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bodhisattwa Mandal Date: Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:02 AM Subject: Re: [Wikisource-l] Vote for Google OCR-Wikisource integration in 2015 community wishlist To: "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" <wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, The OCR4Wikisource script is evolving heavily. Already more than 1,50,000 pages have been OCRed in both Tamil and Bengali Wikisource using the OCR4Wikisource script. The idea and the tool proved to be a game-changer for Indic Wikisource projects. And when we were getting some hope, Google announced that they will charge for doing OCR using their drive. https://cloud.google.com/vision/ Is there any chance that WMF will go for negotiation with Google so that we can do the mass OCR free of charge? I remember Asaf once told that this possibility can be pursued. I think, now is the time to do that. Regards, Yeah! I'm really happy that the BUB tool is resurrecting, and for the new OCR script. Thanks everyone! Aubrey On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org 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