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

2016-02-21 Thread billinghurst
Apologies for not replying earlier. I have managed to get the attention of WMF staff and they have pushed this to the right section within WMF to talk to Google. I suggest that we give them a week to get their head around the issues, and be able to ask questions. This falls into the important,

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

2016-02-21 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2016-02-21 22:58 GMT+01:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > Nicolas VIGNERON, 21/02/2016 21:39: > >> Maybe there is other alternatives but no one has pointed even the >> beginning of an option. >> > > It would be easier to point options if we had answers to the basic > question "for

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

2016-02-21 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Nicolas VIGNERON, 21/02/2016 21:39: Maybe there is other alternatives but no one has pointed even the beginning of an option. It would be easier to point options if we had answers to the basic question "for which languages exactly do we need another OCR?".

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

2016-02-21 Thread Nicolas VIGNERON
2016-02-21 21:21 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni : > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > wrote: > >> This is not true, of course. There is always an alternative, the question >> is which alternative is worth pursuing. > > > > Nemo,

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

2016-02-21 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hi, Another alternative is development of open source good quality OCR or improve existing ones. Many tried in India and Bangladesh to create OCR by taking Government funds but no one knows what happened to those projects. We approached some of them but either they were reluctant to show the

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

2016-02-21 Thread Andrea Zanni
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > This is not true, of course. There is always an alternative, the question > is which alternative is worth pursuing. Nemo, please be reasonable. If members from Indic communities say that there is an issue, and

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

2016-02-21 Thread Mathieu Stumpf Guntz
Le 20/02/2016 13:07, Federico Leva (Nemo) a écrit : Bodhisattwa Mandal, 19/02/2016 18:02: And when we were getting some hope, Google announced that they will charge for doing OCR using their drive. https Makes sense. Is there any chance that WMF will go