[Indic-computing-users] FOSS GIS : e.g. Marathi using an altrnative to opentype

[<jit...@vs...>]

Please take a look at 
203.199.16.202
This is a site under construction and with a limited team (mostly final year project students)and resources.
Open to developers to add .
The source codes are mostly downloaded from public domain. Whatever else or customisatios,  will soon be made availble for download.
For comments, suggestions and feature wishlists.
jitendra


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> Organization: Mahiti Infotech Ltd.
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:58:54 +0530
> Subject: [Indic-computing-users] OCR and spell-checking for Asian 
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> To: Sunil Abraham <su...@ap...>
> Subject: OCR and spell-checking for Asian scripts
> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:33:31 -0400
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> Were you the one who was interested in the status of
> spell-checking support and OCR for Asian scripts?
> If it wasn't you, do you recall who it was?
> 
> I investigated this question, and found that
> GNU aspell can handle nearly all of Unicode, provided
> that a dictionary is available.  However, there are
> specific problems with a few Asian scripts.
> See http://aspell.net/man-html/Unsupported.html.
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> Some Asian languages already have dictionaries.
> See http://aspell.net/man-html/Supported.html.
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> However, OCR is another matter.  The best free OCR program is GNU
> Ocrad.  Its author says that each letter needs to be implemented by
> hand--so that implementing a new alphabet is a lot of work.
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> He would be willing to act as a guide to whoever wants to
> implement a new alphabet, but such a person has to be very capable
> in order to do more than just waste his time.
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> Sunil Abraham, su...@ma... http://www.mahiti.org
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