On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana <t...@cscs.res.in> wrote: > Colleagues working in Bangla say that in their experience it is faster, > cheaper, and less error-prone to create digital texts by typing them in.
The "cheaper" is an interesting word to use in this context. Are we still arbitraging on the low-cost of human labor to input texts? It is faster/less error-prone because you are comparing against systems that are vaporware. > Once there is a larger body of digitised texts, and OCR technology for > Indian languages also improves, OCR could become the preferred option. With the strong emphasis on "cheaper", I wonder if there will be enough demand for a machine driven system. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
