Hi all,

Regarding Patrick’s question about easy OCR, I suspect he’s particularly looking for a tool that can handle multi-page PDFs in one go, which could be especially helpful for digitization projects like UTA’s Resource Library for Dharmaśāstra Studies.

If Patrick or anyone else is interested, feel free to reach out to me directly. I’m looking for a few volunteers to test a new drag-and-drop interface I’m building to streamline access to Google Vision OCR, which is currently best in class and handles multi-page inputs well.

Kind regards,

Tyler

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM <indology-request@list.indology.info> wrote:

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From: Patrick Olivelle <jpo@austin.utexas.edu>
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Date: Fri, 9 May 2025 22:07:05 +0000
Subject: [INDOLOGY] OCR
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