Do you know what the status is regarding OCR software for Devanagari script?
A novel version of Sanskrit Reader OCR is built by Oliver Hellwig, at http://www.sanskritreader.de/, both German and English version. As of now, only the older version is available at mirror. The software “Reads Nagari texts in Sanskrit and Ardhamagadhi, Trainable, allows Spellchecking during and after recognition. Text can be exported to the clipboard and inserted in extern writing programs. HTML-help.” A detailed procedure of the avaialble Sanskrit OCR file, with example, is presented at http://www.ibiblio.org/sanskrit/tools/ocr.php with proven success. For comments or improvements, visit the contact page http://ibiblio.org/sanskrit/contact.php. The Indian-Language Technologies has a major project for the Devanagari OCR (Optical Character Recognition) development. It is part of the Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The project is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), US and the Indian Statistic
