Hi list,

While I don't plan to immediately announce every "Kalpataru Diaries" blog post I do, this one seems potentially more useful than most, so I didn't want to wait in this case. Shout-out to Andrew Ollett for the instructions for Google Cloud Vision that this write-up is based on.

In short, if anyone is at an impasse about convenient and cost-effective OCR for Sanskrit, please be in touch, and I'll help you out directly. Especially for projects involving 1–100 complete books, I think a micro-commercial setup like the one I'm offering can really accelerate our collective work on digitization. And while my special interest is Sanskrit, this technology should also work well for a lot of other languages, too.

Looking forward to seeing some of you in my inbox soon!

Kind wishes

Tyler