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Wikisource OCR: Investigate automatic OCR solution
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Description

As a product manager, I want to see what would be possible to create an automatic OCR solution, so that no users need to click on the "OCR" button in order to create a text rendering of an image file.

Background: We have identified that Wikisource community members want a way to do bulk OCR. One of the main reasons why is that it is tedious to click on the "OCR" button on every page of the book (which could be a very long book). The purpose of this work would be to create a solution so that no users need to click on OCR per each page. We initially considered a Bulk OCR button on the Index page, but a much easier solution (from a technical perspective) could be for the OCR to be triggered automatically whenever the user accesses the page. The purpose of this ticket is to explore this option.

Acceptance Criteria:

  • Investigate how we can add OCR-ed versions of the text automatically displayed upon load when user is in the Proofread Page (rather than needing to click on "OCR")
  • Investigate the main technical challenges or risks with doing such work