Andrea Zanni, 03/10/2013 13:19:
Hi Nemo,
that's great news.
I wonder though how would be worth to redo the OCR on the archive djvu,
as it will be on the archive.org <http://archive.org> but not on Commons...
Do you imply that we would need to re-upload the djvu on Commons?
Of course, it will need to be reuploaded. Reuploading is cheap, while
correcting OCR errors consumes precious volunteer time.
Nemo
BTW,
I think it's past time that Archive.org and Wikimedia start a real
partnership/collaboration.
With Micru, some months ago, we tried to draft a possible model:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1PNcNlN2oqvajVfOEFuM29sbzg/edit?usp=sharing
But I think the discussion died (as did many others).
One of the things we could do is a project similar to this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Possible_projects#Google_Books_.3E_Internet_Archive_.3E_Commons_upload_cycle
Aubrey
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As you know, many of us use archive.org <http://archive.org> to OCR
their books:
<https://en.wikisource.org/__wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The___Internet_Archive
<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#The_Internet_Archive>>
For a while, they've been stuck with FineReader 8.0. I've just
noticed the last OCR processes use 9.0, which has 5 more languages
and 2 more dictionaries:
http://www.abbyy.com/support/__finereader_90_ts/__RecognitionLanguages/
<http://www.abbyy.com/support/finereader_90_ts/RecognitionLanguages/>
http://www.abbyy.com/support/__finereader_80_ts/__RecognitionLanguages/
<http://www.abbyy.com/support/finereader_80_ts/RecognitionLanguages/>
I think it's worth re-doing OCR on any archive.org
<http://archive.org> DjVu you're using (and you definitely must do
so if it's one of those languages). I'm a (limited) admin there, so
feel free to give me on my talk lists of items where to update OCR:
https://wikisource.org/wiki/__User_talk:Nemo_bis
<https://wikisource.org/wiki/User_talk:Nemo_bis>
Nemo
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