Give users on Wikisource the option to utilise a line detection model while using the Transkribus OCR
Use changes made to the API as in T340837
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| Add functionality to use line detection model | mediawiki/extensions/Wikisource | master | +136 -53 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Open | Feature | None | T326385 [Epic] Add Transkribus support to Wikimedia OCR | ||
| Resolved | • PMenon-WMF | T343959 Add functionality to utilise line detection models on Wikisource |
Change 947796 had a related patch set uploaded (by Parthiv; author: Parthiv):
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikisource@master] Add functionality to use line detection model
Change 947796 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Wikisource@master] Add functionality to use line detection model
Merged.
But I have a couple of questions:
Under what situations would someone want to not send the line model? It seems to me that it should at least default to sending it, and perhaps not even be a user-facing option to not send it. (In the on-wiki UI this is, not in the advanced form.)
Is it clear to users what a line detection model is and why they'd want to change the setting?
So by default, Transkribus uses a line detection model called Mixed Line Orientation (MLO). A user on, say, Balinese Wikisource has two options
The thing with providing users a checkbox is because it gives users the flexibility of using either the MLO model or the language specific model. This is important as both the models might give different results in the output text depending on the suitability of the line detection model to the image being processed.
I suppose the only situation where a user would not send a line detection model is when they don't know what it is or what it does! Maybe we should work on implementing a one time pop-up (like the blinking indicator when the page first loads) that explains the necessity of line detection models clearly.