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1. Indic Meet 2009, Pune Indic OCR Debayan Banerjee NIT Durgapur [email_address]

5. Came neck and neck with Caere and XIS in the 1995 UNLV test. (See http://www.isri.unlv.edu/downloads/AT-1995.pdf )

6. Never used in an HP product.

7. Open sourced in 2005. Now on: http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr

8. Highly portable. Search for Tesseract OCR on YouTube.

16. Better deskewing and pre-processing methods available. No need to worry.

17. Ocropus

21. Pyhunspell?

22. We need to repair or replace DAWG probably.

27. Need to integrate with Silpa. Santhosh?

28. Create a feedback based learning system. Do-able with Python scripts.

31. Google keeps telling us that they are working on an Indic OCR. Its been over a year though.

33. Jinesh K J and Indu S are working with me on this

34. Technical support available in terms of Professors and papers.

35. In parts, the problem is already solved. Some more hacking involved.

37. Rapid/trivial training data generation

38. Given ground truth data, accuracy calculation must be automated

39. Learn from web based feedback

40. Develop an interface for the same