Hi Bal Krishna, Thanks for the info. I have tried using some hindi OCR software. Some of them are not too bad. However I have been using images extracted from PDF files. I would like to see how it works with higher quality image files. Regarding research, I myself am not a technical guy. However, I came across Dr. Hellwig who seem to have been quite active in Sanskrit/Hindi OCR. May be there could be some collaboration on the research side. http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/indologie/mitarbeiter/drittmittel/hellwig/index.html I think if there is a decent OCR software and people are willing to put in some time to correct the generated text, it is possible to get a pretty decent digital copy. I am in Europe and I would like to read those old Nepali books on my kindle etc. The scanned pdf is just not fun. Currently, I have been involved in an Openstreetmap project (adyota,org or osmnepal.org), would like to do sth around openbooks.
cheers rajeev On Tuesday, December 4, 2012 5:55:59 AM UTC+1, Bal Krishna wrote: > > Hi, > Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) had been digitizing its collections of > Nepali materials. MPP/LTK has done some research and development on Nepali > OCR. > http://nepalinux.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=46&Itemid=53 > However, this is still an area that needs further Research as segmentation > and handling of half and joint Nepali characters is quite challenging and > yet to be addressed. I would be happy to guide people who would be > interested to take up this research. > Regards, > Bal Krishna > > > > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:37 AM, rajeev <[email protected] > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> Can somebody update me on the recent works on digitizing old Nepalese >> literature books such as Laxmi Nibandha Sangraha etc. I know that many of >> them have been scanned and put for public use under CC at pustakalaya.org. >> Anybody working on digitizing them using OCR or some other means? >> >> Thanks, >> Rajeev >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] <javascript:> >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] <javascript:> >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> > > -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
