On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>
wrote:
> uh, that sounds very interesting.
> Right now, we mainly use OCR from djvu from Internet Archive (that means
> ABBYY Finereader, which is very nice).
>
Yes, the output is generally good. But as far as I can tell, the archive's
Open Library API does not offer a way to retrieve the OCR output
programmatically, and certainly not for an arbitrary page rather than the
whole item. What I'm working on requires the ability to OCR a single page
on demand.
But ideally we could think of a "customizable" OCR software that gets
> trained language per language: htat would be extremely useful for
> Wiikisources.
>
> (i can also imagine to divide, inside every language, per centuries,
> because languages too changes over time ;-)
>
Indeed.
A.
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