On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gautam John gautam@prathambooks.org wrote:
What ever became of the Digital Library of India project? http://www.dli.ernet.in/
Whatever happens to projects like that ... (there's a tweet from @abhaga in this regard)
Wasn't OCR high on their to-do list, as such?
The point I was making is that most of the code that enables Indic OCR to reach higher percentages of accuracy isn't available under FOSS licenses. Debayan had been working on this for a while. There is a reference to the "technology" (as requested by Nagarjuna in a later mail) at http://sankarshan.posterous.com/the-plan-to-create-a-digital-library-of-100-c