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IIT Madras develops an easy OCR system for reading Bharti script
Dr. Srinivasa Chakravathy and his team at IIT Madras has developed a unified script for nine Indian languages, named the Bharati script. The team has developed a method for reading documents in Bharati script using a multi-lingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) scheme. The team has also created a finger-spelling method that can be used to ..
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Artificial intelligence • Brahmic scripts • Cha • Contents • Devanagari • Gurmukhi • Hearing loss • Hindi • Ja • Optical Character Recognition • Writing systems
Japan picks Chinese character “disaster” to define 2018
On December 12, Japan picked the Chinese character “disaster” to define the year 2018, a year that saw deadly floods, strong earthquakes and heavy storms. The selection came after Japan was buffeted this year by torrential rains in the country’s west and an large earthquake in Hokkaido, heightening public awareness of the importance of disaster ..
Topics: Chinese characters • Countries • East Asia • Japan • Japanese writing system • Kanji • Writing systems