I thought I already replied for this. Sorry if I don't. This is the essence of our work. We need *searchable* and *reusable* text. That is not possible with Graphic text. There are many other advantages. For example, see how Malayalam community released and offline version (CD) of Wikisource articles last year. Searchable and reusable text are most important. Due to the lack of good FOSS tools, the OCR facility for Indic language is still an issue. When OCR facility comes our current manual work will go away. Then digitization will be easier. Shiju On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ashok Modhvadia <ashokmodhvadia(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: > Dear Shiju, Susantbhai. > > Thanks for this Q&A. Yes, this will help us. > > On 3/25/12, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Shiju, > > > > Now when we are very active on wikisource, this will help us. > > > > Regards, > > Dhaval > > > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shiju Alex <shiju(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > >> Dear Wikimedians, > >> > >> Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or > >> about using Proofread extension). > >> > http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisour… > >> > >> > >> Post is also placed in metawiki at > >> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_o… > >> > >> Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using > this > >> method extensively to digitize the books. Few other communities are not > >> aware about the use of such an extension. This post is just to share > the > >> best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities. > >> > >> Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons > >> from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in > >> most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar. > >> > >> Shiju Alex > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikipedia-gu mailing list > >> Wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu > >> > >> > > > > > -- > **ɐıpɐʌɥpoɯ ʞoɥsɐ* > * Meet me at:::::>> > *http://vanchanyatra.wordpress.com* >