Yann, do you mean you're getting good quality DjVu generated from the
PDF? Or from the original scan Jpegs?


Aubrey: when you say directly use the PDF, you mean for the tool to copy that 
across to Commons and not create a DjVu?


I can have a look at adding that feature perhaps? (Anyone else
working on this?)


—sam



On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, at 02:05 AM, Yann Forget wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> The quality of the result depends of paramaters.

> I use Abby FineReader, and I use the high quality possible, which
> gives good quality DjVu, but of high volume.
> It is always a trade-off between quality and volume.

> 

> Regards,

> 

> Yann

> 

> 2017-01-24 12:03 GMT+01:00 Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com>:

>> I added this issue to IA-upload tool on github:

>> https://github.com/Tpt/ia-upload/issues/14

>> Unfortunately, the new PDF > DJVU conversion is useless, as it loses
>> too much quality.
>> Can we find a solution?

>> The IA-Upload tool is a great asset for the whole international
>> community,
>> and it's very simple to teach librarians to upload stuff on IA and
>> then use it to port it on Commons and Wikisource.
>> But when they upload new stuff on IA, we don't have the IA djvu
>> anymore.
>> So the tool converts the original PDF to a new DJVU, and this is the
>> part of the process that is failing.
>> I can think of 2 solutions:

>> * integrate this script from Alex brollo into the tool:
>>   
>> https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Progetto:Bot/Programmi_in_Python_per_i_bot/jp2todjvu.py
>> the script creates a good quality djvu

>> * have a toggle/top-down menu which allow the user to use directly
>>   the PDF.
>> 

>> 
>> Andrea

>> 

>> 

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