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 > -- > Belayet Hossain > http://www.facebook.com/bellayet > http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet > http://twitter.com/bellayet > http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) > Knowledge is universal > ...so share it. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-BN mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn > >
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