2017-01-25 8:40 GMT+01:00 Sam Wilson <[email protected]>: > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, at 03:27 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:45 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yann, do you mean you're getting good quality DjVu generated from the PDF? > Or from the original scan Jpegs? > > AFAIU, Yann is using ABBYY finereader to generate a djvu and then uploads > it directly to Commons. So outside of our ia-upload tool. > > Ah, okay. So if it could be done in the tool, that'd be nicer. > > Yes, it is a question of settings.
> Aubrey: when you say directly use the PDF, you mean for the tool to copy > that across to Commons and not create a DjVu? > > > Yes. > If the Djvu quality is much lower than the PDF there's no reason to use > the djvu over the pdf :-( > > DjVu has to advantages over PDF: better compression, so small files for the same content, and better management of the text layer. Over if the compression is too high, the quality is not good. It is a question of a compromise between quality and size. Yann > Are we saying that we *never* want to use the IA PDF? That if there's a > DjVu we use it, and if there isn't we generate our own DjVu from the JP2 > and djvu.xml files? Or should the tool user make this call and we give them > a drop-down list of "PDF only", "Generate DjVu from PDF", and "Generate > DjVu from original scans" with a note about the last of these being higher > quality but slower? > > I think I'm in favour of just generating a high-quality DjVu and making it > simpler for the end user. But we want to be flexible too. jayantanth > mentioned <https://github.com/Tpt/ia-upload/issues/15> that he'd like to > be able to just upload the PDF for example. > > > > > I can have a look at adding that feature perhaps? (Anyone else working on > this?) > > > Please ;-) > > > I can try! :-) > > Aubrey > *_______________________________________________* > 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 > >
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