You may want to look at a software called SANSKRITOCR. The old version was free. There is a new commercial version also. Please see http://www.sanskritreader.de/
Shree Devi Kumar ____________________________________________________________ भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ http://bhajans.ramparivar.com On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Jaanus Henno <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, this font is called Tamalten. But the problem is that I need to use > another font (that is Balaram in the font list I send). This is part of a > project of Vedic scriptures, you can see the online version here: > http://vedabase.com/en > Those texts I need to get from those PDFs are for the offline version > which uses Balaram font. So these two are not compatible. So a find&replace > method to get the proper symbols is ok since there are not much material to > get from those pdfs. > > In a broader sense there are people who are traveling throughout Indian > libraries to photograph old manuscripts to preserve and digitize them. So > for that purpose a working OCR will be much needed. I think I will contact > one person because if he actually needs the help in this regard, it will be > definitely worth trying to train tesseract to properly recognize those > images. But that is native sanskrit, bengali and other languages. And there > are others who are looking for solution to be able to recognize sanskrit > transliteration also. What do you think, can it be done in tesseract? No > Finereader or other commercial orc programs cannot do that. > > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, V S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 11/27/2013 9:50 PM, Shree Devi Kumar wrote: >> >>> Rawatji, >>> >>> I was going by the assumption that the text can be easily extracted from >>> >> >> It is good that we have found two methods for replacing these letters. >> >> However, the fundamental solution is that there has to be font in which >> these same ASCII codes must already be showing the correct letters. >> >> So, if anyone gets time to do some research or somehow figures out which >> font it is, it will be very helpful for handling such text in future. Then >> replacement would not be required. >> >> To begin with, the font has to be one of the dozen listed in pdf file's >> properties-fonts. >> >> Thanks. >> -- >> Rawat >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en >> >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in >> the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> topic/tesseract-ocr/6uG7HUxLY7w/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "tesseract-ocr" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
