I got the 80% success from Sankarshan&#39;s posterous - <a href="http://sankarshan.posterous.com/the-plan-to-create-a-digital-library-of-100-c">http://sankarshan.posterous.com/the-plan-to-create-a-digital-library-of-100-c</a><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://sankarshan.posterous.com/the-plan-to-create-a-digital-library-of-100-c"></a>The problem that Ashwin Baindur raised was the improper digitisation effort. A rough Google search tells me that C-DAC is doing the digitisation for the Maharashtra Archives - <a href="http://www.cdac.in/html/egov/mda.aspx">http://www.cdac.in/html/egov/mda.aspx</a> - which as Ashwin raised the point is stored on compact disks. Interestingly they are using SQL and Visual Basic under Windows NT. I am not sure if this is a good thing. I also do not know when this project was done either. So, not sure if those were then current technologies.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We discussed yesterday that Maharashtra Archives being a public institution (or for that matter any public institution) should ideally make these documents either public domain or release under an open copyright (do correct me if I am wrong with terminology). </div>
<div><br></div><div>warm regards,</div><div>Pradeep<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2011 11:29, Pradeep Mohandas <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com">pradeep.mohandas@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">hi,<div><br></div><div>At the discussion yesterday, we were told that the OCR did not work at all in case of many Indian languages. Also, as a person who does not understand OCR at all, can any one help me with what they mean by a 80% successful OCR? </div>

<div><br></div><div>The other end of the process is the digitisation machine needed to convert the physical text into image. Any ideas on availability and cost of a museum grade digitisation machine? I am sure you cannot and the archives will not let you use an ordinary device to handle these documents. </div>

<div><br></div><div>thanks in advance,</div><div>Pradeep</div>
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