04-08-2011, 03:45 PM
DEVANAGARI OCR SYSTEM:-"An Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system to recognize a wide variety of fonts in Devanagari Script. Though a multitude of products are available for character recognition in Roman script, very few, if any, are available for Devanagari. Whatever work has been done, it has mostly been a part of some academic project and hence they are not useful for any practical application. The major areas of application of Devanagari character recognition would be in following areas- 1. Digitizing existing government documents for easy and efficient storage and retrieval- This single use of a Devanagari OCR can bring about positive, dramatic changes to the way Government as well as Non-government offices function. The service time can be drastically reduced at offices which work in public domain and hence improve the all round efficiency of offices. 2. Digitizing the existing books in languages that use Devanagari scripts- Making the digital version of existing as well as new books and making them available at no or negligible cost can tremendously help improve the declining reader base for Nepali literature."