IIT Madras Team Develops OCR System for Nine Indian Languages

  • A team of scientists from IIT Madras has developed a method for reading documents in Bharati script using a multi-lingual optical character recognition (OCR) scheme.

Bharati Script

  • Taking a cue from European languages, team at IIT Madras has, over the last decade, developed a unified script for nine Indian languages, named the Bharati script.
  • It is a unified script for nine Indian languages which is being proposed as a common script for India.
  • The integrated script includes Devnagari, Bengali, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil.
  • Urdu and English were not integrated so far because of their very different phonetic ....
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