Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource meetup at WMCon

2018-04-20 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
ups on this slot (and I'll represent >>>> Wikisource at the Wikidata meetups as Wikisource specific needs need to be >>>> aknowledge too). >>>> >>>> Anyway, WMCON is a relative small events so if anyone has question, >>>> wants or needs, pl

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource meetup at WMCon

2018-04-18 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
I'd be very interested to join meetup. Who else? 2018 թ. ապր 17, երք, 16:56 Bodhisattwa Mandal օգտատերը գրել է՝ > Hi, > > I hope there will be a Wikisource meetup at Wikimedia Conference 2018. > > >

Re: [Wikisource-l] Djvu format fate

2018-04-06 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
What do you think about aproaching ABBYY and explaining that this is really important to us? Simply keeping feature usually is not a big issue. Can we ask Foundation to approach them? 2018-04-06 15:59 GMT+04:00 Peter Meyer : > I have heard about this issue many times, and

Re: [Wikisource-l] How to retrieve text layer from a djvu page by API

2014-11-05 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
Alex, as far as I understand Phe's tool is being used for that, at least in OCR.js (standart OCR button on Wikisource) https://wikisource.org/wiki/MediaWiki:OCR.js https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/ (some source seems to be here https://github.com/phil-el/phetools/tree/master/hocr ) But I

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource meet-up on Saturday at Wikimania

2014-08-09 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
Folks, I'm still at big hall, at Laylas talk, will you stay at Frobisher 5? Օգս 9, 2014 11:27-ին, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com-ը գրել է` I'll be there! On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Best of Luck all Jayanta On Fri, Aug 8, 2014

Re: [Wikisource-l] OCR for Persian

2014-06-24 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
ABBYY FineReader supports Hebrew and Arabic since v. 11. But I'm afraid same script is not enough. For example FineReader has 3 versions for Armenian. All three use same scripts, different orphography and slightly different vocabulary, but if you set wrong language drop in quality is dramatic. So

Re: [Wikisource-l] Project leaflet

2014-06-11 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
Was thinking same thing, let's make a Wikisource leaflet. Any suggestions on first steps to start with? Հնս 11, 2014 12:56-ին, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com-ը գրել է` This seems very interesting... https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Leaflets Aubrey

Re: [Wikisource-l] Documenting ProofreadPage API

2014-05-16 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
Sorry for offtop: Kishan, and is there any straightforward way to know how many pages a DjVu/PDF contains, through some API call? By straightforward I mean not asking for new pages, till you start getting errors. Best, Aleksey On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Gaurav Vaidya gau...@ggvaidya.com

Re: [Wikisource-l] RFC: IEG Grant proposal to develop tools for (Armenian) Wikisource

2014-04-20 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Aleksey Chalabyan xelgen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've made an IEG Grant proposal, to develop few tools for Armenian Wikisource, which can be localized, adjusted for different languages and used globally in the future. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG

Re: [Wikisource-l] Wikisource community meet-up at Wikimania 2014

2014-04-18 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
Hi David, If I'll make it to Wikimania I'll definetly join the meetup. Also, I've submitted proposal for Tutorial-style presentation, mainly targeted for those relatively new to Wikisource. https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/From_paper_book_to_a_digital_one_on_Wikisource On

[Wikisource-l] RFC: IEG Grant proposal to develop tools for (Armenian) Wikisource

2014-04-07 Thread Aleksey Chalabyan
Hi, I've made an IEG Grant proposal, to develop few tools for Armenian Wikisource, which can be localized, adjusted for different languages and used globally in the future. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Tools_for_Armenian_Wikisource_and_beyond I would appreciate your feedback,