Request for a vps to run OCR for wiki source
Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Feb 2016 04:32:07 +0530
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Recent slay, Tamilnadu government released 2000+ nationalized books in public domain. The scanned PDF books are in http://tamilvu.org/library/nationalized/html/books-list.htm Announcement is here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Public-Domain-Declaration.jpg Tamil wiki source community is now uploading all the nationalized books to http://commons.Wikimedia.org so that they can be used in http://ta.wikisource.org Wiki source community usually types the content from PDF files manually. But typing manually 2000+ books is too tough. Hence, I wrote a python script to use Google drive OCR to extract text from the PDF files and to update relevant wiki source page. See these links. https://github.com/tshrinivasan/google-ocr-python https://github.com/tshrinivasan/OCR4wikisource Oriya, Bengali, Kannada and tamil wiki source communities started to use this script and regularly report on bugs, enhancement requests. Tamil wikisource community is facing much internet connectivity issue. So they have to keep on monitoring manually for the script to running and uploading files to google drive. It will be nice to have a VPS running this script so that the issues by network is solved. Requesting to donate a VPS for two or three months so that we can upload all 2000+ books in tamil wiki source along with the OCRed text, with multiple user accounts. Reply here or to me of anyone is interested in donating a VPS. 1 GB or 2GB ram/ 40GB hard disk/ Ubuntu are the requirements. Thanks. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines