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From: Subhashish Panigrahi <subhashish@cis-india.org>
Date: Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:22 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google's Optical Character Recognition software now works with all South Asian languages
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org


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Google's OCR which apparently is most accurate OCR
we have seen so far, works really good for all the major South Asian
scripts:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/08/29/googles-optical-character-recog
nition-software-now-works-with-all-south-asian-languages
Here are test cases of many Indian scripts: https://goo.gl/3X75iR.
Except Gurmukhi most scripts are working really good.

This could be really useful for Indian language Wikimedians and will
come handy for digitization of printed and scanned text.  Here is an
animated tutorial for Wikimedians to use this tool for
Wikisource/Wikipedia:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_to_use_Google_Optical_C
haracter_Recognition.gif

Please write to me if anyone wants to localize this tutorial in your
language.

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Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
@subhapa / https://cis-india.org
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