WikiConference India 2016/Submissions/Indic Wikisource & Google OCR Co-ordination

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Type of presentation

Workshop

Abstract (in about 300 words)

The Indic wikisource domain was started about 2006-2007. But due non-availability of proper Indic OCR, the project was not flourish. Typing was not the good solution for this project. Althought the Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali Wikisource community engaged by typing the book page by page. In past year January 2015 google release their Multilingual OCR Google Drive Tool. We have tested that OCR result is quite good. Then Tamil Wikipedia, Shrinivasan T was developed one python script for automated OCR job using the Google drive OCR tool in Oct 2015. IWth using this tool the Tamil and Bengali Wikisource community OCRed about 400554 and 466747 pages respectably. ( Latest stats of Indic Wikisource below). But other wikisource is quite silent due to proper knowledge of using this tool. With this workshop we will teach how would using this tool to developed other Indic languages.

Pr-requisite for this workshop will be.

Linux users
The basics editing of Wikipedia.
The primary knowlege of wikisoure.
Linux Based laptop.
Windows Laptop With Oracle Virual Box ( Loaded Lixux will be added advantage)

Time required: Minimum of One hr

Requisite knowledge: knowledge of linux but not compulsory.

Target group: All Indic Language Community

Result

Accepted

Last Update on July 2016, full stats will be available here.

Page namespace							Main namespace
language	all pages	not proof.	problem.	w/o text	proofread	validated	all pages	with scans	w/o scans	disamb	percent
te	27706	8537	28	621	18520	17219	11677	2839	8838	0	24.31
ta	400554	395592	2	14	4946	4632	4099	68	4031	0	1.66
ml	19918	11690	119	284	7825	668	6254	670	5584	0	10.71
gu	5570	360	9	107	5094	2597	4824	655	4169	0	13.58
bn	466747	459703	192	2909	3943	1159	6828	885	5913	30	13.02
kn	10617	8659	5	51	1902	594	6862	73	6789	0	1.06
or	4570	2764	2	22	1782	383	362	0	362	0	0
sa	4308	3486	9	90	723	192	13851	6	13845	0	0.04
as	710	307	0	0	403	66	1314	10	1304	0	0.76
mr	1774	1749	0	3	22	6	970	1	969	0	0.1

Interested attendees and comments

Highly recommended. Every Indian language Wikisource volunteer should attend this. --Ravi (talk) 18:37, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--Manojk (talk) 03:30, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Csyogi (talk) 10:05, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--Balajijagadesh (talk) 02:28, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
--Kannan Shanmugam (talk) 06:06, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]