[INDOLOGY] Ind-senz OCR software for Sanskrit

[Madhav Deshpande]

This OCR program for Devanagari looks very useful.  As a Mac user, I wonder
if there anything like this that would work on Mac OS?

Madhav Deshpande


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Jürgen Neuss <juergen.neuss at fu-berlin.de>wrote:

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> Dear McComas and others,
>
> the man behind indsenz is Oliver Hellwig, with whom I have been working
> together for many years in the now defunct Indological Department of the
> Freie Universität Berlin. I have been using the software for sanskritists
> he developed for many years now. He also developed the INDOSKRIPT database
> interface, which those concerned with Indian epigraphy might know. (It is
> available here: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/falk/ ). With quite a lot of
> experience in OCR, I can assure you that there is nothing comparable to
> Indsenz's Devanagari OCR in the market. If you have a look at Indsenz's
> homepage, please also take a look at the SanskritTagger software, which is
> another tremendous tool being distributed as freeware by Oliver.
>
> Best,
>
> Jürgen
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:11:53 +0200, McComas Taylor <
> McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Colleagues, I never thought I would see the day, but I have just tried out
> Ind-senz's Sanskrit OCR software, with close to 100% success rate. I tested
> it out on a page of Lanman (good clear print) and got excellent results.
>
> http://www.indsenz.com/int/index.php
>
> Highly recommended
>
> McC
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Madhav M. Deshpande
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The University of Michigan
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