Re: [Indlinux-hindi] Google Summer of Code

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:25:35 +0100
"Vivek Rai" <viv...@gm...> wrote:

> 1) Opensource OCR(optical character recognition) for Indian
> langauges on Linux
> 
> 
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Some ideas were being thought of here. but it needs a clear outlining
of the theory behind OCRs (at least taking clue from existing free
OCRs).
 http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/OCR


> There is apparently some Hindi OCR software distributed along with
> the C-DAC CD. I dont know much details.

It was a windows based one, didnt work well ( esp with non CDAC
fonts).

> 
> 2) Some mechanism to ease translations of OpenOffice/Mozilla
> 
> Have some utility scripts which take .po files as an Input, and
> generate an OO or mozilla firefox langauge pack.
> 
> The idea is to make translations (and their maintainance) for such
> applicaions which dont use the common po file formats easier.
> 
> There are already some tools for oo2po and po2oo and moz2po, po2moz
> kind of translations, we just need to build wrappers around them, so
> these become easy to use by the translators.

Yes, its a good idea.  Its always a bit of trouble generating
langpacks. Will explore if such thing can be put in online
translation system. so for mozilla package group, an XPI can be
automatically generated.

> 3) Enable pango support in at least one "lightweight" WM (such as
> IceWM)
> 
> For machines with low RAM, running KDE/gnome from a liveCD is not a
> feasable option.
> 
> We need at least one lightweight WM which supports pango. (note -
> xfce also needs larger RAM like kde/gnome)
> 

but one aspect here is while WM may be light, the applications being
used could still be heavy!. its like running blackbox/fvwm & then
OpenOffice/ Firefox.
 I think for lightweight desktop part , it would be good to have the
application set also defined for it, eg which is a lightweight
wordprocessor, browser etc.

Karunakar

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