Grants:IEG/Public Domain Textbook Import

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Public Domain Textbook Import

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taosubmarinesmail.ru

participants:

grantees: User:Herper.gr

summary:

Working on https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Snakes_of_Europe, this makes me wonder how to work with a single scanned pdf page, how to import the OCR text from archive.org, extract plates, tables or diagrams as an image, and ensure approximate layout is the same on a heavily modified pdf/odt output (printed ebook)

2014 round 1

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What is the problem you're trying to solve?

The book, The Snakes Of Europe is a 100 year old public domain text. There is no modern day comparable open access/source field-guide/reference/text-book, that has photos to assist species identification of the subject matter, and information. My idea is to enable easy cross-referencing of external scans (pdf/image/...) (ie from archive.org) and of external OCR sources, and to look at ways to improve import of OCR (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Snakes_of_Europe/Definition_and_Classification has various tables incorporated that have not been pasted legibly, whereas https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Snakes_of_Europe/Habits is a fairly simple copy and paste, fully legible, even without correct formatting).

What is your solution?

I would like to develop an extension for firefox and chrome to have external pages (a pdf page from archive.org) on a top side panel and be able to work with OCR text on a lower side panel, so as to be able to import (copy) a piece of the pdf with say an image or a table of interest. With this concept I would be able to paste selected tables to the 'Definition_and_Classification' article above, and have them appear as images. I could also copy in image plates, and taxobox type features, of individual species easily. In this extension i could also look at incorporating addtional utilities such as GOCR, to work in only this extension.

Project goals

• Have an easier template to work with external material.
• Be able to work with multiple revisions of the same material (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Snakes_of_Europe/Index#THE_SNAKES_OF_EUROPE has the naming nomenclature used by Boulenger in 1913, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Snakes_of_Europe/Species is current, copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reptiles_of_Europe. A revision system would allow forking to produce a current up-to-date ebook, and a formatted OCR of the original material better than at archive.org.

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