Hi, I am happy to inform, that Shrinivasan has created a python script to automate the process in Linux system. This scripts upload the PDF files to Google Drive, download the OCRed text and split, merge the text files properly to fit as the PDF file. We have just tested the script for small files in Kannad and Bengali Wikisource and it was successful. We are going to test the script for using different types and sizes of files and in other Indic languages in next few days.
The script is in https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource Regards, Bodhisattwa On 2 December 2015 at 17:21, Tobias Schönberg <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is important for non-technical readers of this list to separate > the 2 issues in the discussion. > > 1) OCR-Integration > This is something WMF can help with, because they can make the connection > between an OCR service and Mediawiki easier and automate certain steps. > > 2) OCR > WMF is not programming an OCR-software and it would probably be a bad idea > to reinvent the wheel. It would be far better if editors reached out to > existing ORC-software projects. Starting a discussion or filing a bug is an > important first step in improving the situation. > Tesseract-OCR (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr) for example is an > open-source project that works on OCR (No bugs filed for e.g. Bengali). The > mailing list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/tesseract-ocr) > contains discussions about e.g. Bengali ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tesseract-ocr/Bengali). So I > think the situation might not be good, but is certainly on its way of > getting better. > Maybe WMF-India can fund a developer to work on Tesseract-OCR. Another > idea would be, to reach out to local universities. Maybe a few > informatics-students can improve the situation. > > -Tobias > > > 2015-12-01 19:51 GMT+01:00 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <[email protected]> > : > >> From that page which, Alex has linked: >> "On the other hand, using the service for converting document formats >> *is* SaaSS, because it's something you could have done by running a >> suitable program (free, one hopes) in your own computer." >> >> Hundreds among us have burnt their hands in developing a successful >> 'free' OCR tool for Indic languages without any real luck until now. >> Until such a tool appears on the horizon, the Google facility is just >> okay to be used. >> >> Especially so, because we are anyway dealing with 'free' input and output >> material. >> >> -Viswaprabha >> >> >> >> On 1 December 2015 at 21:49, Bodhisattwa Mandal < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Alex, >>> >>> Of course, building free OCR can be the only permanent solution, but WMF >>> is not interested in building new OCR right now. The language engineering >>> team said at the conference that, they don't have the infrastructure and >>> expertise to build such software. That's why, we have to rely on Google >>> OCR, knowing very well about its profit making intentions. It's just a >>> temporary solution but right now, its the only best possible alternative >>> for us. >>> >>> Regards >>> Bodhisattwa >>> On 1 Dec 2015 21:12, "Alex Brollo" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ... nevertheless I found very interesting this about "SaaSS": >>>> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html >>>> >>>> So, to build a true, excellent and indipendent "wikisource multilingual >>>> OCR service" would be a better solution. >>>> >>>> Alex >>>> >>>> 2015-12-01 16:06 GMT+01:00 Bodhisattwa Mandal < >>>> [email protected]>: >>>> >>>>> Hi Nemo, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your interest. You can find the list of Google OCR >>>>> supported languages in the following link - >>>>> >>>>> https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Bodhisattwa >>>>> Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are we >>>>> talking about exactly? Are they included in the recent FineReader versions >>>>> now used by Internet Archive? >>>>> >>>>> Nemo >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > -- Bodhisattwa Mandal Administrator, Bengali Wikipedia ''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.''
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