Re: [gutvol-d] Arabic eTexts
"maitri venkat-ramani" writes:
Some of these books may be in the public domain and worth looking into. Anyone particularly interested in developing an Arabic language partnership with the project mentioned below?
It sounds like they're writing software, not transcribing books. I'm not sure why this is news that everyone's carrying; <http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabocr.html> is a ten-year old review of Arabic OCRs. <http://www.translation.net/sakhr_automatic_reader.html> is a commercially available Arabic OCR program, even if it's a touch expensive. <http://www.translation.net/ocr.html> is a nice list of OCR programs if you're looking for something beyond what ABBYY supports. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
From the article I read, I got the impression that the lead researcher is passionate about certain texts which will be lost if his reader is not developed. I'll email him and find out if he has any particular eBook intentions and forward him some of our questions.
Maitri --- "D. Starner" <shalesller@writeme.com> wrote:
"maitri venkat-ramani" writes:
Some of these books may be in the public domain and worth looking into. Anyone particularly interested in developing an Arabic language partnership with the project mentioned below?
It sounds like they're writing software, not transcribing books. I'm not sure why this is news that everyone's carrying; <http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabocr.html> is a ten-year old review of Arabic OCRs. <http://www.translation.net/sakhr_automatic_reader.html> is a commercially available Arabic OCR program, even if it's a touch expensive. <http://www.translation.net/ocr.html> is a nice list of OCR programs if you're looking for something beyond what ABBYY supports. --
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Just wondering, I was looking through the PG Top 100 and realised the figures for all the books are a lot higher than usual. Do we have a surge in visitors this week? Secondly, mainly because I can't get enough of stats, would it be possible to have a 'total number of books downloaded' somewhere, so we can compare week on week how we are doing? Miranda
Miranda van de Heijning wrote:
Just wondering, I was looking through the PG Top 100 and realised the figures for all the books are a lot higher than usual. Do we have a surge in visitors this week?
Due to problems at ibiblios file servers we didn't get the log files for some days and so the script couldn't count the downloads. If you want to see the global numbers go to: http://www.gutenberg.org/internal/stats/2005/02/ user: internal pass: books and look at month-files.html To see an independent stat about gutenberg.org's popularity go to: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=3m&size=large&compare_sites=gutenberg.net,promo.net&y=t&url=gutenberg.org
Secondly, mainly because I can't get enough of stats, would it be possible to have a 'total number of books downloaded' somewhere, so we can compare week on week how we are doing?
I could add that figure quite easily on the top 100 page but it will be misleading. We just count the downloads from ibiblio's servers. We don't know how many books get downloaded from our mirrors. And, at the rate we are going, we are far below the numbers Michael likes to put in his newsletter (billions, trillions, gazillions) and most likely that'll start another war about how to count downloaded ebooks. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:36:59 +0000, Miranda van de Heijning <miranda_vandeheijning@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: | | Just wondering, I was looking through the PG Top 100 and realised the | figures for all the books are a lot higher than usual. Do we have a | surge in visitors this week? | | Secondly, mainly because I can't get enough of stats, would it be | possible to have a 'total number of books downloaded' somewhere, so we | can compare week on week how we are doing? Beware the numbers of books downloaded will vary drastically on a weekly basis, because of Christmas and other public holidays, University and school holidays etc. IMO monthly running averages would give a better idea of what is happening. -- Dave F
This could have been from some press we got in the UK. And don't forget that every once in a while some big outfit like Yahoo or Google just grabs everything, likely if we get lots more hits, but over all the eBooks in general. . . . mh On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:36:59 +0000, Miranda van de Heijning <miranda_vandeheijning@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
| | Just wondering, I was looking through the PG Top 100 and realised the | figures for all the books are a lot higher than usual. Do we have a | surge in visitors this week? | | Secondly, mainly because I can't get enough of stats, would it be | possible to have a 'total number of books downloaded' somewhere, so we | can compare week on week how we are doing?
Beware the numbers of books downloaded will vary drastically on a weekly basis, because of Christmas and other public holidays, University and school holidays etc.
IMO monthly running averages would give a better idea of what is happening.
-- Dave F
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At 10:38 AM 2/7/2005, you wrote:
This could have been from some press we got in the UK.
I believe this first explanation to be more likely, as the requests for DVDs have gone through the roof, and 90% of them were from the UK. Fortunately, things have slowed down a lot over the last few days. Aaron
And don't forget that every once in a while some big outfit like Yahoo or Google just grabs everything, likely if we get lots more hits, but over all the eBooks in general. . . .
mh
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 10:36:59 +0000, Miranda van de Heijning <miranda_vandeheijning@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
| | Just wondering, I was looking through the PG Top 100 and realised the | figures for all the books are a lot higher than usual. Do we have a | surge in visitors this week? | | Secondly, mainly because I can't get enough of stats, would it be | possible to have a 'total number of books downloaded' somewhere, so we | can compare week on week how we are doing?
Beware the numbers of books downloaded will vary drastically on a weekly basis, because of Christmas and other public holidays, University and school holidays etc.
IMO monthly running averages would give a better idea of what is happening.
-- Dave F
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Miranda van de Heijning