[INDOLOGY] Nagari conversion

[Harry Spier]

Oliver,
When I open the link you gave, in a browser it gives the file name in the
upper left corner as drahyayana_shrauta_sutra.qxd . The extension qxd is
for QuarkXpress files.  QuarkXpress is publishing software.  When I
download the file, it downloads as a pdf but when I look at the properties,
the fonts in the file are embedded Type 1 postscript fonts.

MSTT315b9a0609O15504302

MSTT319c623cc2O17006000

MSTT31ab77a7ccO21306200

MSTT31b3f9fa67O15204300

So it looks like QuarkXpress has disguised the names of the fonts it used
in creating the pdf.

So as far as I can see, this is a (probably quite old) pdf file created
from a QuarkXpress file.  Since the fonts aren't unicode fonts, and the
names of the fonts are disguised,  the only thing I can think of is to make
a jpeg of each page and enter it into SanskritCR
https://ocr.sanskritdictionary.com/ and then manually correct the errors.

Quite laborious but less laborious than typing the whole thing by hand
again.
Harry Spier


On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 12:32 AM Oliver Hellwig via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I came across this digitized version of the Drahyayana Srauta Sutra:
>
>
> http://www.hinduonline.co/vedicreserve/kalpa/shrauta/drahyayana_shrauta_sutra.pdf
>
> Everything seems fine, but when I try to copy-paste the text, the result
> for the first line looks like:
>
> {;Á;y,≈*tsU]m
>
> (This should be the name of the text.)
>
> Does anybody know how to obtain readable Devanagari from this kind of
> custom encoding?
>
> Best, Oliver
>
> ---
> Oliver Hellwig, IVS Zürich/ILI Düsseldorf
>
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