Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Multimedia and Commons/Transcription gadget for images with text

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Transcription gadget for images with text

Problem: Any text in an image should be transcribed into the description, to make items discoverable
Who would benefit: Anyone searching commons and people trying to extract info from photographs
Proposed solution: Gadget to run image through ocr and insert text
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: :JarrahTree (talk) 10:59, 10 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Available as c:User:Samwilson/GoogleOCR.js. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:51, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Tom Ja (talk) 23:37, 16 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Abzeronow (talk) 05:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fabiorahamim (talk) 07:05, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gnangarra (talk) 09:19, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 09:27, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 12:03, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:39, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support HLHJ (talk) 06:05, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Juandev (talk) 11:21, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 17:02, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support mainly if the plan is to do this for non-Latin scripts as well. Joalbertine (talk) 17:27, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Joalbertine: If we were to use the Google OCR service, then these languages would be supported — lots of (but not all) non-latin scripts. Sam Wilson 06:08, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OMG We must make this happen! --Joalbertine (talk) 09:03, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulp here 12:11, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support β₁₆ - (talk) 15:54, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sadads (talk) 22:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 13:35, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support I guess we need to implement tools to
- facilitate people tagging which images have text (AI and/or OCR can be used to pre-guess for a person, person confirms)
- facilitate people transcribing (computer asks people what language is it; OCR provides an initial version of the text for a person to proofread)
- facilitate people translating these transcriptions to different languages Gryllida 07:16, 23 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Olea (talk) 12:03, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gideoraielgave (talk) 17:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Filipović Zoran (talk) 19:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support - FlightTime (open channel) 21:48, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support A garbage person (talk) 17:19, 27 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 23:11, 28 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kpjas (talk) 10:37, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]