>From that page which, Alex has linked: "On the other hand, using the service for converting document formats *is* SaaSS, because it's something you could have done by running a suitable program (free, one hopes) in your own computer."
Hundreds among us have burnt their hands in developing a successful 'free' OCR tool for Indic languages without any real luck until now. Until such a tool appears on the horizon, the Google facility is just okay to be used. Especially so, because we are anyway dealing with 'free' input and output material. -Viswaprabha On 1 December 2015 at 21:49, Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Of course, building free OCR can be the only permanent solution, but WMF > is not interested in building new OCR right now. The language engineering > team said at the conference that, they don't have the infrastructure and > expertise to build such software. That's why, we have to rely on Google > OCR, knowing very well about its profit making intentions. It's just a > temporary solution but right now, its the only best possible alternative > for us. > > Regards > Bodhisattwa > On 1 Dec 2015 21:12, "Alex Brollo" <alex.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ... nevertheless I found very interesting this about "SaaSS": >> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html >> >> So, to build a true, excellent and indipendent "wikisource multilingual >> OCR service" would be a better solution. >> >> Alex >> >> 2015-12-01 16:06 GMT+01:00 Bodhisattwa Mandal < >> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Hi Nemo, >>> >>> Thanks for your interest. You can find the list of Google OCR supported >>> languages in the following link - >>> >>> https://support.google.com/drive/answer/176692?hl=en >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bodhisattwa >>> Thanks for posting about the topic. Which indic languages are we talking >>> about exactly? Are they included in the recent FineReader versions now used >>> by Internet Archive? >>> >>> Nemo >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikisource-l mailing list >>> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisource-l mailing list >> Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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