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Ah, now ure on about OCR (Optical Character Recognition). YOU can scan documents in english and edit them in MS Word or wotever. But with Punjabi its quite rare... yet it has actually been done. Theres a guy in India who has actually created this! BUT this guy is being so stingy, hes waiting to hit the jackpot with it, which means hes probably waiting for my man Bill Gates to throw a couple of million at him. Its a shame but ah well.. hopefully one day in the near future it will be available.

Actually, i used to think it cud be done neway... jus match the scanning software to punjabi fonts so when it picks up the lines n that, it matches to punjabi fonts and not english fonts. But ah well.. guess i was wrong? :lol:

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Dr. Gupreet Singh Lehal has made the 'Gurmukhi OCR'.

Contact him: gslehal@yahoo.com

It costs Rs 5000.

He has also made the software AKHAR, which is a powerful Punjabi word processor with of uniques featues for Punjabi such as

1. Font conversion between any of the common Punjabi fonts

2. Import/Export to ISCII, Unicode, PDF

3. Support for DOC, HTML and RTF formats

4. Bilingual Punjabi/English spell checker

5. Support for additional dictionaries

6. Onscreen keyboard and support for Romanised Punjabi input

7. Punjabi-English and English-Punjabi Dictionaries

8. Limited Search engine for Guru Granth Sahib

9. Text analysis utility

That also costs another Rs 5000.

These softwares have not been 'published' yet officially, but he will 'sell' you for that price. I have also contacted bookshops/dealers in Punjab, and none has such software...the only way to get it is: through the man who made it...

there have been a couple of articles about him in the Tribune. preety good.

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To download Demo Version:

http://punjabirc.tiet.ac.in/rcentrei.asp (lots of Punjabi related stuff!)

http://punjabirc.tiet.ac.in/Products%20dev...eloped/ocr.html (at the end of the page...it is about 60 MB)

unzip the file...and use 'Module' to digitalise Gurmukhi/Punjabi scanned pages! it works fine...and you can save the edited text in any possible gurmukhi font you like! it has a punjabi spell checker also... :lol:

if you use DemoModule...it won't be saved...i guess they forgot to remove the 'module' file...punjabi system...lol rolleyes.gif

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