May 15, 2003
OCR for Sanskrit
A work in progress, as reports the NY Times:
Documents written in Devanagari, the script used for Sanskrit and other South Asian languages, can be scanned as images. But optical character recognition, or O.C.R., software for turning Devanagari texts into digital information that can be searched and reformatted has not been commercially available. . .In an effort to accelerate the development of O.C.R. software for Devanagari (a compound word whose literal translation is "city of immortals"), Cedar [Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition, at the State University of New York at Buffalo] and the Indian Statistical Institute are distributing a script-recognition tool that they hope will become the international standard for software that can recognize Devanagari.
Their script-recognition software, which can be downloaded free at www.cedar.buffalo.edu/ILT, can separate lines and individual characters written in the flowing script. It then offers an on-screen transliteration in Roman characters for proofreading.
Dr. Govindaraju said that in the early 1990's, Cedar gave away similar tools it had created for the United States Postal Service to analyze handwriting. "That spurred work in the Roman alphabet on handwriting recognition," he said. "There has been tremendous progress since then."
Posted by David on May 15, 2003 5:16 PM
Please do let me know of any updated developments at nimish@triatma.com
Nimish Shah
Triatma E-Services
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Posted by: Nimish Shah on January 30, 2004 2:36 PM
CDAC has developed an OCR called Chitrankan. However it is not for free use. hence any new information on development of free OCR for devanagari script would be welcome.
tinku@gawab.com
Posted by: Tinku Singh on March 21, 2004 3:48 PM
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Posted by: basanta on September 26, 2004 2:05 AM
I need ocr for devanagiri script. if any body can provide me it will be a great help. And also i need guidance to develope the same using Matlab
Posted by: amita on May 29, 2005 6:00 AM
Kindly let me know how i can avail of OCR for Sanskrit / Devanagari Script. What's the latest version available.
Posted by: sharada on May 19, 2006 1:13 AM
I would like to know if there is any software for writing in Sanskrit, so that the same can be downloaded. I am working as a Sanskrit teacher. If the software is available, it will be very useful for me in my profession i.e. preparation of question papers etc.
Posted by: I ARUNA on August 15, 2007 10:45 AM
The OCR called Chitrankan developed by CDAC is completely unsuccessful. We have tried this tool. No one percent result is available with Chitrankan.
Sorry to 'Tinuk.'
Posted by: Muni Shri Mitranandsagarji on June 23, 2008 1:28 AM
I need nepali fonts which is used in Text books. Like Himalaya regular (Sumod Acharya). Malai Sumod acharya collection chahiyeko chha Pathaunu la
Posted by: Jeeten Maharjan on May 31, 2009 11:38 AM
I need a strong OCR software for Devanagari Script. I want to know how I can get this. I download chitrankan but I am sorry to say that this software is absolutly flop and of no use. There are may OCR software for english scrip and are very successful but none for Devanagari script.
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