Template:Optical character recognition

The text of this file should be extracted and uploaded separately using optical character recognition or, if possible, the file should be scanned from the original as a PDF text document. See also Help:Converting

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:Optical character recognition/doc.

This template marks images with text which should be extracted and uploaded separately using optical character recognition.

The template automatically sets the following categories: Media for cleanup

Usage

Or use the shorthand

{{OCR}}

The template takes no parameters.

Template data

Parameter text is empty

TemplateData

TemplateData is a way to store information about template parameters (the description of those and of the whole template) for both humans and machines. It is used by VisualEditor and possibly other tools like Upload Wizard.

Existing template documentation
At Wikimedia Commons, it is recommended to use {{TemplateBox}} with either ‎useTemplateData=1 or ‎useTemplateData=only on the ‎/doc subpage and transcluding it with {{Documentation}} into the template. ‎<nowiki>-tags can be wrapped around the arguments, if required, to avoid templates being expanded.

Newly created template documentation and imports
Another option, especially for imported templates, or for users with JSON experience, is placing raw ‎<templatedata>-tags into the Wikitext of the template, as described in various Wikipediae.

Discussion
There is an ongoing discussion about that matter. Feel invited to comment if you are experienced in either way, your time permits and if you like to share your opinion or to make a suggestion.

Wikipedia's help about TemplateData • Commons-specific information

This template marks images with text which should be extracted and uploaded separately using optical character recognition.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
No parameters specified

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Localization

This template is localized through {{Autotranslate}}. The layout of the template can be found under Template:Optical character recognition/layout.

To add your language to the list of languages supported by this template, please copy the code of Template:Optical character recognition/en (or any other language version you prefer to translate) and replace the text strings in there (the form below can be used to create a translation, the English version is preloaded in the edit box). Please change the parameter lang from en (or whatever language you are translating) to the language code of your language.