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

• 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)