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Does anybody have any idea about any recent work being done on optical character recognition for Indian scripts using modern Machine Learning techniques ? I know of some research being done at ISI, calcutta, but nothing new has come up in the last 3-4 years to the best of my knowledge, and OCR for Devanagari is sadly lacking!

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    google scholar gives me a lot of hits for 'ocr hindi'.. maybe you could pick one of these papers and email the authors asking if they could point you to places/people still working on these problems – Aditya Mukherji Jan 18 '10 at 18:54
  • Paid OCR software is available, http://www.indsenz.com/int/index.php?content=download_area – Nitin Sawant Aug 10 '13 at 06:02
  • questions about suggestions are off-topic here. It should be on http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ – phuclv Apr 01 '17 at 12:30

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FYI: There's an article in the New York Times from 2003 referencing a tool called ILT.

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This is surely too old to be useful, but is cool: a video of the Ingalls speaking on Sanskrit and OCR. (Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Sr., Sanskrit professor and translator, and his son Dan Ingalls, computer scientist involved with Smalltalk etc.) The first half is Ingalls Sr. describing a project to automatically analyze text, and the second is by Ingalls Jr. describing how he implemented OCR for Sanskrit from scratch.

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  • An anonymous user proposed adding this link to the answer: https://tdil-dc.in/eocr/index.html (I think it was intended to be a separate answer of its own, not an edit to this answer, so I'm leaving it here) – ShreevatsaR Dec 17 '18 at 18:32