OCR of (transcribed) indic texts

[E. Bashir]

I am also interested in the answers to these questions.  If anyone has
helpful information on them, please reply to the list.

Thanks,


E. Bashir, Visiting Lecturer
Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Juergen Neuss wrote:

> Dear list-members,
> maybe some of you are aware of the difficulties which arise if one wants
> to scan transcribed (not to speak of original) indic texts. Of course
> the scanning itself is not the problem but the subsequent transformation
> of the image-file into a text-file by means of OCR (Optical character
> recognition) programs. These programs often do recognise only the usual
> set of ASCII-characters. Some of them include extended features ehich
> means that in certain cases the user may direct the program to read a
> certain difficult character in a certain way. As far as I know
> diacritical signs are a problem for at least most of these programs. If
> anyone of you has experience with OCR programs in this respect I would
> be grateful for your recommendations. Moreover I would like to know
> whether there are any OCR programs available which recognise Indian
> characters of any kind. I hope this message does not provoke any
> response which violates the non-commercial spirit of this list.
> Thanks for reading.
> jn
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> Juergen Neuss
> 
> Freie Universitaet Berlin
> 
> Institut f�r Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte
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