On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana <teju(a)cscs.res.in> wrote:
Colleagues working in Bangla say that in their
experience it is faster,
cheaper, and less error-prone to create digital texts by typing them in.
The "cheaper" is an interesting word to use in this context. Are we
still arbitraging on the low-cost of human labor to input texts? It is
faster/less error-prone because you are comparing against systems that
are vaporware.
Once there is a larger body of digitised texts, and
OCR technology for
Indian languages also improves, OCR could become the preferred option.
With the strong emphasis on "cheaper", I wonder if there will be
enough demand for a machine driven system.
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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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