[INDOLOGY] Ind-senz OCR software for Sanskrit

[Jan E.M. Houben]

I fully agree with the positive evaluation of McComas Taylor and Juergen.
A useful feature of Oliver Hellwig's devanagari OCR is that you can SCAN
the text in Devanagari and EXPORT it to your office applications in
(searchable and editable) roman transcription. Exporting in Devanagari is
of course also possible but for searching and editing you will have to face
all problems of vowel "maatraas" and ligatures.
Jan



On 11 April 2013 21:32, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:

> This OCR program for Devanagari looks very useful.  As a Mac user, I
> wonder if there anything like this that would work on Mac OS?
>
> Madhav Deshpande
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Jürgen Neuss <juergen.neuss at fu-berlin.de>wrote:
>
>> **
>> Dear McComas and others,
>>
>> the man behind indsenz is Oliver Hellwig, with whom I have been working
>> together for many years in the now defunct Indological Department of the
>> Freie Universität Berlin. I have been using the software for sanskritists
>> he developed for many years now. He also developed the INDOSKRIPT database
>> interface, which those concerned with Indian epigraphy might know. (It is
>> available here: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/falk/ ). With quite a lot
>> of experience in OCR, I can assure you that there is nothing comparable to
>> Indsenz's Devanagari OCR in the market. If you have a look at Indsenz's
>> homepage, please also take a look at the SanskritTagger software, which is
>> another tremendous tool being distributed as freeware by Oliver.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jürgen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:11:53 +0200, McComas Taylor <
>> McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> Colleagues, I never thought I would see the day, but I have just tried
>> out Ind-senz's Sanskrit OCR software, with close to 100% success rate. I
>> tested it out on a page of Lanman (good clear print) and got excellent
>> results.
>>
>> http://www.indsenz.com/int/index.php
>>
>> Highly recommended
>>
>> McC
>>
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Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, SHP,
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