Good initiative Belayet Bhai. Carry on. I am with you & let me know if you
need any kind of help for this project. And regarding OCR, you can test
this OCR https://code.google.com/p/banglaocr/

Jayanta Da


On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Belayet Hossain <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Wikimedians,
> I would love to share with you an idea, that I've planned to improve
> Bangla Wikisource (http://bn.wikisouce.org) contents by typing digitized
> (PDF, DjVu) books now available at Public domain license. Target people for
> this plan is students of school, college and universities.
>
> The basic idea is Bangla does not have any good OCR to work. But there are
> lots of digitized public domain books are available at internet as well
> printed public domain books in reality. So we have to type the books to
> make it in Unicode. So run series of type-a-thon event in educational
> institutions where student can learn how to type Bangla using Bangla
> Wikisource integrated typing tools. They can practice Bangla typing with
> the Bangla Wikisource ProofReading extention page by typing the PDF or DjVu
> pages uploaded at Bangla Wikisource or Commons. They will also lean about
> Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Bangla. That's a way we can
> improve and increase Bangla Wikisource contents and also enable students to
> contribute in Bangla Wikimedia projects.
>
> I made a draft the idea at the meta page[1] with some more explanations
> and more details. I would like to invite you to join the plan, improve it
> and make it success by discuss it, with your comments, suggestions and your
> active participations.
>
> [1]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Capacitate_student_in_Bangla_typing_through_Bangla_%28bn%29_Wikisource_and_improve_Wikisource
> [2]Click 
> here<http://bn.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%98%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F:%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80.djvu>to
>  see an example of pdf book at bn Wikisource.
>
> Regards,
> Belayet
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