[INDOLOGY] Search for Devanagari Fonts

[Sebastian Nehrdich]

Dear Harry,

First of all, thanks to everybody who has reached out to us so far, either
on or off list!

On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Sebastian
>
> You wrote:
>
>>  The Dharmamitra project is preparing the training of OCR models for
>> typeset Devanagi editions this summer,
>>
>
> Can you say a little more  about the project.
> 1) Is this to have different capabilities than SanskritCR (already
> available).  https://ocr.sanskritdictionary.com/ . From my brief use of
> SanskritCR it seems to work well for printed editions from the first half
> of the 20th century.
>
If I understand correctly, this is a wrapper for Google (=Cloud Vision?)
OCR? Cloud vision as of now still struggles to some extent on complex
ligatures of lesser common fonts.
We plan to train an end-to-end vision language model. There really is no
promise for this to work beyond what the best current solutions already
achieve, but we want to give it a try.


> 2) Is it the actual fonts you want, or sanskrit text written in different
> fonts.
>
Actual fonts, yes!

>
> 3) If it's fonts you are looking for, is it unicode fonts you want.  The
> reason I'm asking is that the bulk of the literature (older than the last
> 20 years or so)  typeset by computer would be in non-unicode fonts.
>
We really are interested in eveyrthing, while unicode is the best we might
invest time to make other fonts work if needed.
With many thanks,

Sebastian Nehrdich


> Thanks,
> Harry Spier
>
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