Dear Prof. Varakhedi,
thanks for your positive feedback, great to hear it’s useful.
Concerning the next digitizations, I am planning to work my way through the
scans found at
The most time consuming part is transforming the pdfs back into image
files. Therefore, it may take some time to process these data.
In case you or other members of the list are interested, we may consider
feeding other scanned books into the database. What I need for this are scanned
images of single pages (grey, binary) in decent quality; the height of a single
a should be 30-50 pixels in this case.
Best wishes, Oliver
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PD Dr. Oliver Hellwig
SFB 991, University of Düsseldorf
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit scans database
Dear Dr. Oliver Hellwig,
Excellent resource!!! This resource created by you is a great support to
the world of linguists. Thank you so much.
Can you please give an exhaustive list of works you are planning to add, so
that others can avoid duplication or can share resources they got.
With best regards
Shrinivasa Varakhedi
Vice Chancellor i/c
Professor and Dean
Karnataka Sanskrit University
Bangalore 18
09483501353
08026794258
Dear list,
a new resource for searching - partly undigitized - Sanskrit books is
available at
The website gives you access to a database of Sanskrit books that have
been digitized WITHOUT manual correction. This is the very first release, and
I'm planning to increase the database with scanned texts that are freely
available in the web.
To search the database, enter a word in simplified Harvard-Kyoto in the
search field (e.g., narmada or sarasvati*), and press the button 'Search'.
Enter does not work at the moment. More details about the input conventions
are available when you press the help button on the website. The rest of the
website should be self explanatory.
Best wishes, Oliver
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PD Dr. Oliver Hellwig
SFB 991, University of Düsseldorf