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Right now, the Wikisource OCR service is using an [[ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Google-api-proxy/Documentation | API proxy hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services ]]. This is problematic both from a reliability and privacy perspective. We need to move to an API proxy that is hosted on a production server. The Language team is already using an API proxy that is on a production server: [[ https://cxserver.wikimedia.org/v2?doc | cxserver.wikimedia.org ]]. This proxy already handles sending requests to the Google Cloud API (among other APIs) and thus we may be able to share use of that server or set up a very similar service. The Language team's service was set up by @akosiaris from SRE and @KartikMistry on the Language team.

Right now, the Wikisource OCR service is using an [[ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Google-api-proxy/Documentation | API proxy hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services ]]. This is problematic both from a reliability and privacy perspective (since Wikisource OCR is already a default tool on some Wikisources and soon will be on many more). We need to move to an API proxy that is hosted on a production server. The Language team is already using an API proxy that is on a production server: [[ https://cxserver.wikimedia.org/v2?doc | cxserver.wikimedia.org ]]. This proxy already handles sending requests to the Google Cloud API (among other APIs) and thus we may be able to share use of that server or set up a very similar service. The Language team's service was set up by @akosiaris from SRE and @KartikMistry on the Language team.

Right now, the Wikisource OCR service is using an [[ https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Google-api-proxy/Documentation | API proxy hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services ]]. This is problematic both from a reliability and privacy perspective (since Wikisource OCR is already a default tool on some Wikisources and soon will be on many more). We need to move to an API proxy that is hosted on a production server. The Language team is already using an API proxy that is on a production server: [[ https://cxserver.wikimedia.org/v2?doc | cxserver.wikimedia.org ]]. This proxy already handles sending requests to the Google Cloud API (among other APIs) and thus we may be able to share use of that server or set up a very similar service. The Language team's service was set up by @akosiaris from SRE and @KartikMistry on the Language team.