Creation of Devanagari Data Resources and OCR Technology Interchange

这个合作研究项目将研究如何将一些用于英语文本识别的技术与用于印度语言文档OCR的增强技术一起使用。该提案将为测试和评估Devanagari识别系统创建数据资源。Devanagari是许多印度口语使用的文字，其中突出的是梵语，印地语和马拉地语。它是一种字母文字，全世界有超过4.5亿人使用。这项研究将由纽约州立大学布法罗分校文件分析与识别卓越中心和印度统计研究所的团队进行。该项目预计将为Devanagari带来新的工具，并刺激NLP、文档分析和信息检索等其他领域的脚本识别研究

This collaborative research project will examine how some of the techniques that have been used for English text recognition can be used with enhanced technologies for OCR of Indian language documents. The proposal will create data resources for testing and evaluating Devanagari recognition systems. Devanagari is the script used by a number of Indian spoken languages, prominent among which are Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi. It is an alphabetic script, used by over 450 million people around the world. The research will be carried out by teams from the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition at SUNY-Buffalo and the Indian Statistical Institute. The project is expected to result in new tools for Devanagari and to stimulate research in other areas of script recognition for NLP, document analysis and information retrieval.--