Thank you Subhashish for the response at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/Digitization_workshop_18August2013

Dear Shyamal, this workshop was for demonstrating the participants about create a home made set up to scan the books, edit the scanned images and make an eBook. OCR is not still stable for Indic languages and would need another workshop for presentation. Here the "creating text based documents" is basically the manual editing on WikiSource. Please feel free to edit and correct if any mistakes found. --Subhashish Panigrahi (talk) 10:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
That sounds too basic. Almost any office assistant these days is expected to know how to use a scanner and create at least a PDF. It would be good if you can post your proposed workshops. There are really excellent (and local if I may add) resources who can be proposed by the community. Shyamal (talk) 15:00, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
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To abstract a bit from this - may I suggest that any planned workshops actually work out the topic coverage on-wiki so that the structure is useful and the expectations are clear. Asking potential attendees for areas of interest or expectations may also help. Since there appears to be a plan to do this on an India-wide scale I think it would be good to include several other topics. Some of the things that I have had to consider in the course of scanning thousands of pages of documents for the Internet Archive are included below. Hope others can add to it.

* Image formats - djvu, PDF comparisons, PDF/A - grey shade, black&white, use of JPEG2000, TIFF
* Online archival options
* Digital libraries - also good to bring in people (librarians, archivists) involved with Indian digital library projects - including the ICAR http://www.icarlibrary.nic.in/ DLI - (even if their website is terrible http://dli.ernet.in/ ) - other local digital library/archive ventures http://statelibrary.kerala.gov.in/rarebooks/ , http://dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/ )
* Book-scanners
* Home scanning tricks and solutions eg. how to scan large sources (such as a newspaper that is bigger than the scanner bed)
* OCRs - use of layers, Indic language problems, approaches (is it possible to crowdsource manual transcription, can the technology be extended to allow people who do not know the language to help in manual transcription)

best wishes
Shyamal