Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Archive/OCR tool

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OCR tool

N Already in road map for Community Tech team

Problem: Wikisource does not have a completely functioning OCR tool.
Who would benefit: Any Wikisource contributor working from a scanned text without a pre-existing OCR layer.
Proposed solution: See Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wikisource/New OCR tool.
More comments: This is a re-submission of a previous request.
Phabricator tickets: phab:T161978 phab:T228594
Proposer: –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 17:56, 16 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. A million times, yes. NMaia (talk) 10:11, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
+1Sohom Datta (talk) 14:35, 17 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
++1
I believe the Community Tech team is planning on completing this project from last year regardless. Kaldari (talk) 14:45, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
+1 continuous improvement, to include AI of typical errors in a work, including obscure character sets. google OCR is better, it would be nice to surpass them. Slowking4 (talk) 15:30, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
+1 --Ernest-Mtl (talk) 18:36, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@MJL: Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wikisource/New OCR tool was submitted last year and received 65 votes. The Community Tech is planning on completing this wish from 2020. I will archive this proposal. Thank you for participating in this survey! Harumi Monroy (talk) 23:58, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]