2011/2/14 shirish शिरीष shirishag75@gmail.com:
In Pune, around this time lot of colleges have their technical weeks where they show projects, last year and couple of years before I had seen students who had made nice OCR's which could work with indic languages but obviously required lot of polish and getting into the whole 'code maintainance' thing. The students motivation for that had been to do as a project and not getting things 'maintained' which is unglamorous grunt work. Also documentation is something that would need to be looked at and fine-tuned.
Indic OCR, at least the bits that are available under an appropriate FOSS license, have an accuracy of around 80%. Considering the volume and fragility of what you will OCR, that's remarkably low.