AFAIK, IA always produce the jp2 files by himself.

I suggest GLAMs to upload zipped folders of jpegs,
so IA can do his magic and produce a book viewer and a PDF as well as the
jp2.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Sam Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, at 06:35 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
>
> The problem for me is that librarians and other people who are genuinely
> interested in Wikisource and IA
> don't understand why
> * they upload a good scan on IA
> * see a good book on IA, via the viewer
> * get an horrible djvu on Wikisource.
>
> This is the issue we should try to solve, otherwise we will lose a
> potential important ally, content and new userbase.
> Aubrey
>
>
> Definitely!
>
> On a related note: most (all?) IA-scanned books have e.g. *_jp2.zip files
> containing all the original scan images, but is there any standard for
> user-uploaded books? Like your librarians above, I assume they're uploading
> individual jpg/png files? Do these get combined into a single zip? I'm
> thinking that they don't, and that ia-upload needs to provide the option of
> using any of the following sources:
>
>    - .djvu
>    - _jp2.zip (there's also _jpg.zip and _raw_jp2.zip, but I guess we
>    don't need to use them?)
>    - *.jpg + *.jp2 + *.png (i.e. use all images in the item, apart from
>    _cover_image.jpg)
>    - .pdf
>
>
> Sound complete? Or are there other ways?
>
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