Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
I got the 80% success from Sankarshan's posterous - http://sankarshan.posterous.com/the-plan-to-create-a-digital-library-of-100-c The problem that Ashwin Baindur raised was the improper digitisation effort. A rough Goog

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, At the discussion yesterday, we were told that the OCR did not work at all in case of many Indian languages. Also, as a person who does not understand OCR at all, can any one help me with what they mean by a 80% successful OCR? The other end of the process is the digitisation machine needed t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread jayanta nath
Dear all Regarding IndicOCR I want to share our Bengali OCR open source project from BRAC University Bangladesh. It is still developing stage and accuracy 80-90%. http://crblp.bracu.ac.bd/ http://crblpocr.blogspot.com/ On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:31 AM, sankarshan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gautam John wrote: > What ever became of the Digital Library of India project? > http://www.dli.ernet.in/ Whatever happens to projects like that ... (there's a tweet from @abhaga in this regard) > Wasn't OCR high on their to-do list, as such? The point I was m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread Gautam John
On 14 February 2011 10:18, sankarshan wrote: > Indic OCR, at least the bits that are available under an appropriate > FOSS license, have an accuracy of around 80%. Considering the volume > and fragility of what you will OCR, that's remarkably low. What ever became of the Digital Library of India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread sankarshan
2011/2/14 shirish शिरीष : > In Pune, around this time lot of colleges have their technical weeks > where they show projects, last year and couple of years before I had > seen students who had made nice OCR's which could work with indic > languages but obviously required lot of polish and getting i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
In-line :- On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:13, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi, > Thanks Arun for posting it here. I was really tired when I posted this > yesterday to the Mumbai mailing list. It does seem more or less accurate. A > few additions from what I missed out yesterday night. > 1. With The Muse

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

2011-02-13 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Thanks Arun for posting it here. I was really tired when I posted this yesterday to the Mumbai mailing list. It does seem more or less accurate. A few additions from what I missed out yesterday night. 1. With The Museum ( Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay - CSMVS), we spoke with t