More on the great Sarah Sharp fiasco :) http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/60866-female-devs-outburst-against-torvalds-was-planned?utm_source=iTWire+Update&utm_campaign=86ee84691c-2012100810_8_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0ab978d1b5-86ee84691c-35459309
-----Original Message----- From: Wjhonson <[email protected]> To: mediawiki-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 1:21 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikisource-l] Proofread extension "extraction" of OCR text in Djvu I had to moderate my response out of the belief that I would be banned from yet another wiki list by some tyrant. By the way Kernal Dev didn't state this, one Intel developer named Sarah Sharp stated it. But those against frank speech have to make it extreme in an effort to once again silence opposition instead of embracing this sort of speech as the only thing to drive the wagon. -----Original Message----- From: David Cuenca <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 1:12 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] [Wikisource-l] Proofread extension "extraction" of OCR text in Djvu Now that you mention it... http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/07/15/2316219/kernel-dev-tells-linus-torvalds-to-stop-using-abusive-language Micru On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure his attitude will encourage people to work with him to his > specifications. > > -- brion > > > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:12 AM, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm forwarding this message by George Orwell III on en-ws [1]. I think it > > is extremely important as it offers an insight about what is wrong with > > Djvu handling on Wikisource. > > > > > > "We/you are losing the X-min, Y-min, X-Max & Y-max (mapping coordinates) > > because the original PHP contributing a-hole for the DjVu routine on our > > servers never bothered to finish the part where the internal DjVu text > > layer is converted to a (coordinate rich) XML file using the existing > > DjVuLibre software package because, at the time, the software had issues. > > > > "That faulty DjVuLibre version was the equivalent of 4,317 versions ago > and > > the issue has been long fixed now EXCEPT that the .DTD file needed to > base > > the plain-text to XML conversion on still has the wrong 'folder path' on > > local DjVuLibre installs (if this is true on server installs as well, I > > cannot say for sure). Once I copied the folder to the [wrong] folder > path, > > I was able to generate the XMLs all day long. These XMLs are just like > the > > ones IA generates during their process (in addition to the XML that AABBY > > generates for them). > > > > "So its not that we as a community decided not to follow through with > > (coordinate rich) XML generation but got stuck with the plain-text dump > > workaround due to a DjVuLibre problem that no longer exists. Plus, the > guy > > who created the beginnings of this fabulous disaster was like tick with > an > > attention span deficit and moved on to conjuring up some other blasted > > thing or another instead of following up on his own workaround & finish > the > > XML coding portion once DjVuLibre glitch was fixed. -- 15:16, 15 July > 2013 > > (UTC) > > > > > > [1] > > > > > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#EPUB.2FHTML_to_Wikitext > > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Alex Brollo <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Just a brief comment about djvu text layer, using IA files to digging > > > deeper the topic. > > > > > > FineReader OCR stores an incredibly detailed information in a > proprietary > > > format; then, various FineReader versions export something of this > > > extremely rich set of information into different outputs - one of them > > > being djvu text layer. It's worth to note that even if any information > > > stored into djvu text layer can be extracted and used, the set of > > > information wrapped into djvu text layer (both in lisp-like format or > in > > > xml format) is only a minor subset of original OCR information. > > > > > > If someone is interested to get much more information, it can find it > > into > > > abbyy.xml output; and Internet Archive gives it as abbyy.gz into the > list > > > of exportable files. It's a very heavy and complex xml structure but it > > is > > > possible to parse it, end to extract from it any information wrapped > into > > > djvu text layer and much more - most interestingly, wortPenalty, that > is, > > > word by word, the resume of degree of incertainty of OCR recognition of > > the > > > whole word. > > > > > > We (I and Aarti) are digging into this mess, with fast preliminary > > > results; you can see into [[it:w:Utente:Alex brollo/Sandbox]] some > brief > > > pieces of text extracted from abbyy.gx, where doubtful words (in the > > > opinion of OCR software) are red. They can be easily managed by > > > VisualEditor - caming simply from a simple span tag. > > > > > > Now, I'm waiting dor Aarti work; as soon a VisualEditor for nsPage will > > > run, it would be possible to extract text by bot from abbyy.gz (if the > > work > > > comes from IA) and to upload such text as OCR. > > > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > 2013/7/16 David Cuenca <[email protected]> > > > > > >> Hi Aubrey, > > >> Thanks for the heads-up, I have CC'ed Sébastien from fr-ws, he worked > on > > >> the djvu text extraction/merging and he was interested in following-up > > on > > >> that. Maybe he has some fresh ideas about it. > > >> > > >> Micru > > >> > > >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Andrea Zanni < > > [email protected]>wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi David, Aarti, thibaud and Tpt, > > >>> please look at this thread: > > >>> > > >>> > > > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#EPUB.2FHTML_to_Wikitext > > >>> especially the last message. > > >>> > > >>> It seems George Orwell III knows his stuff about Djvu and Proofread > > >>> extension, > > >>> and it's probably worth digging into this "layer text" djvu thing. > > >>> > > >>> Even if I might dream of an ideal solution (a "layered structure" for > > >>> wikisource, in which text can marked up several times in different > > layers) > > >>> that is probably very far away. > > >>> > > >>> But it's still important to pave the way for further improvements, I > > >>> guess: > > >>> losing all the information from a formatted, mapped IA djvu it's not > a > > >>> good thing to do, IMHO. > > >>> And the Visual Editor could help us, in the future, to keep some of > > that > > >>> information (italics, bold, etc.) > > >>> > > >>> I know Aarti spoke with Alex about abbyy.xml: is it possible to do > > >>> something with it? > > >>> > > >>> Aubrey > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wikisource-l mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > >> > > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikisource-l mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Etiamsi omnes, ego non > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
