This link could be useful for your data conversion.

http://nepalinlp.blogspot.com/2010/09/few-years-back-ttf-to-unicode.html

In,
Santa Basnet


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:05 PM, sapradhan <[email protected]> wrote:

> nice initiative,
>
> I looked into the pdf and it seems that there are two fonts in use Preeti
> and PCS Nepali. It turns out PCS Nepali has different keymapping than
> Preeti specifically the numeric layer ie ^‌=ट ,  &=ठ  ,  *=ड and so forth
> which is causing quite a few errors. If it is feasible change the mapping
> based on the font being used, the conversion should be better.
>
> If it would be quicker to do this manually I can help. I dont have write
> access to google docs, please do the needful
> thanks
> santosh
>
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 6:19:09 PM UTC+5:45, prawesh wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> If you look at this constituency http://election.opennepal.net:8000/#/
>> constituency/39, there are lots of issues with unicode, which should not
>> have been if the data were available in proper format. We scraped the data
>> (in Nepali Preeti font) from http://www.election.gov.
>> np/oldecn/NP/pollinglist/dist_const_list.html. The task was not easy,
>> https://github.com/foss-np/2utf8 was used to convert Preeti to Unicode.
>> There could be problems in either conversion as well as scraping. We think
>> that it might be quick to get help from the community to resolve these
>> issues. For ease, we have maintained all the scraped polling centers
>> district-wise in the google docs 
>> here<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=77>.
>> We plan to release these data in opendatanepal.org as well but after
>> resolving those issues, for which we seek your help.
>>
>> District-file 
>> sheet<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=78>
>>  lists
>> the districts and appropriate polling-list pdf file (from which we
>> scraped). And the corresponding district page has all the polling centers
>> (with issues, there might be repetitions as well). We have created columns
>> for corrected center name and romanized center name. So you could correct
>> the center names and add in case of missing centers. 
>> Summary<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=77>
>>  shows
>> the list of districts with issues and corrected name - the google script
>> will run and update the numbers there. For e.g, Taplejung district 
>> page<https://docs.google.com/a/yipl.com.np/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhWLpToTogBwdDR4WWNuQkZMa0I0S0dXQjlCT3pISlE&usp=drive_web#gid=2>seems
>>  to have 3-4 issues in names. Thank you so much for your help.
>>
>>
>> --
>> With Regards,
>>
>> Prawesh Shrestha
>>
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Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Nepal Engineering College
Changunarayan, Bhaktapur, Nepal

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