Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikisource/Remember OCR column/region profiles

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Remember OCR column/region profiles

Problem: Currently, using OCR to extract text from books is bad at detecting irregular features such as notes and columns (see OCR output for wikisource:Page:Login_USENIX_Newsletter_feb1983.djvu/2, and the same page in the OCR tool where rectangular regions can be selected).
Proposed solution: Provide a mechanism (Gadget or via Wikimedia OCR) that will allow users to demarcate columns and specific areas that need to be OCRed together, and store these areas against the Index page so they don't need to be repeated for every page.
Who would benefit: Wikisource editors
More comments:
Phabricator tickets:
1. T294903 ProofreadPage: Implement region selection UI for the OCR tool directly in the PRP page editor
2. T288389 OCR support should recognise and process mutliple regions, with user assisted selection , where a work does not have a 'linear' layout.
Proposer: Sohom Datta (talk) 12:37, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

@Sohom data: Just to clarify: the 'profile' here would be e.g. an index-page level store of rectangular page regions that could then be used on all pages to do the OCR, without users having to re-select the same regions over and over again on each page (as they can currently do, and what's more they do it via the Advanced options form and then have to copy and paste the text). Is that right? SWilson (WMF) (talk) 00:50, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, that is what I meant by profiles :) Sohom Datta (talk) 05:35, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support --Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 19:22, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ━ Sicarov (talk) 20:48, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Magnoliasouth (talk) 23:24, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support عُثمان (talk) 23:38, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes! This would be very helpful for works containing manual annotations as well, or older books where the margins are tight and can confuse the ORC. Waldyrious (talk) 09:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nehaoua (talk) 16:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support VastV0idInSpace0 (talk) 20:03, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kaviraf (talk) 11:46, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:54, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 03:12, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support must needed Jayantanth (talk) 07:57, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support VIGNERON * ^discut. 19:48, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support PMenon-WMF (talk) 06:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruthven (msg) 15:46, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 08:47, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gillum (talk) 23:21, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dankowski (talk) 22:48, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bicolino34 (talk) 08:17, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fabius Lector (talk) 10:35, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ysjbserver (talk) 15:46, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 16:15, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This should be added by users. Thingofme (talk) 16:23, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks useful · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 17:27, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 11:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Fcastillo (talk) 22:12, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bonvol (talk) 13:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]