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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Technology Development for Indian Languages

Department of Information Technology, Government of India initiated the TDIL (Technology Development for Indian Languages) programme with the objective of developing Information Processing Tools and Techniques to facilitate human-machine interaction without language barrier.
Government is all set to provide the following products and solutions in public domain over the next one year:
1. Free fonts (TTF and OTF) and word processors in all Indian languages.
2. Optical Character recognition (OCR) in all Indian languages for information extraction, retrieval and digitization.
3. Internet access tools for Indian languages like Browsers, Search Engines and email.
4. Speech Interfaces for Systems such as Railway Information, Healthcare, Agriculture, Disaster Management and other public utility services.


I installed the Tamil word editor available in their website and it is pretty decent. I think this is a very good start by GOI in the right direction. Even if few of their above mentioned goals are realized in the immediate future, it will definitely make in a difference in taking IT to the common Bharatvasi.

Blogger Ramki said...

Also available in their website is Openoffice customized for Indian languages called BharateeyaOO.

The first impression is not bad! Maybe u guys should try it too and give reviews... 

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