Re: [Wikisource-l] Experience, funding, outreach

2010-04-21 Thread Sydney Poore
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: At the Wikimedia chapter meeting in Berlin last week, Wikisource was mentioned as an interesting project in several different settings. I know a lot of interesting projects and attempts are being tried in various

[Wikisource-l] OCR requests

2010-04-21 Thread Lars Aronsson
The Swedish Wikisource is copying scanned books from various sources. You typically find a PDF or DJVU file, containing both scanned images and raw OCR text, that you upload to Commons, create an Index: page with the pagelist/ tag. Some of these books have pretty miserable OCR text, perhaps