The Ministry project is for building technologies for recognition of spoken and written text of Indian languages and their translation to another language named National Language Translation Mission (NLTM): BHASHINI.
Punjabi University to come up with OCR system for Indian languages
Punjabi University has collaborated with IIIT Hyderabad, IIT, Delhi, IIT Bombay and IIT, Jodhpur, to develop the optical character recognition (OCR) system and applications for Indian languages under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The Ministry project is for building technologies for recognition of spoken and written text of Indian languages and their translation to another language named National Language Translation Mission (NLTM): BHASHINI.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will spend Rs 495.51 crore on the project in three years, out of which Punjabi University, along with others, has been allocated a grant-in-aid of Rs 14.7 crore to build APIs for recognition of printed and handwritten material.
The project team, which will be led by IIIT Hyderabad, will develop high-accuracy recognizers for printed, handwritten and scene text for all the 22 scheduled Indian languages. This will open up opportunities for the technologies that use Indian language OCR systems. The technologies will be made available to start-ups and industries, state and Central Governments, banks, service centres, NGOs, researchers and students.
While speaking on the same, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, Director, Research Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi on the campus and co-investigator of the project, said Punjabi University will mainly focus on developing recognisers for books, newspapers, journals, thesis and other printed material. “We will develop recognisers for recognising printed text in scanned documents for 13 Indian languages, including Punjabi, Hindi, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Urdu, Marathi, Sanskrit, Dogri, Konkani, Nepali, Maithali, Santhali and Bodo. We will also develop technologies for the creation of Braille printed books in these languages”, he said.
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