Hi Patrick,
Have you tried SanskritCR (here are the instructions) https://sri.auroville.org/projects/sanskrit-ocr/
Its just cut and paste an image.  But I'm not sure if it only does 1 page conversion at a time. Or is multi page conversion a paid service?  Anyone know?

Harry Spier

On Fri, May 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear Friends:

I am wondering whether with the advance of AI technology we have easy OCR software to read Devanāgarī, easy enough to be used by someone like me!! We have the one prepared by Andrew Ollett, which he generously gave us. But that requires computer knowledge far beyond my reach. Is there on where you can just drop the Devanāgari scan, out pops a searchable file. This is probably a long shot, but I thought I would ask.

With thanks and best wishes,

Patrick Olivelle

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