OCR-ing abhyankar's grammar dictionary?

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

• अभ्यङ्करकोशः - अस्य अङ्कीकृतप्रतिं प्राप्तुमीहे। किन्तु नास्ति मम तत्र कौशलं वाऽवकाशोऽपि। भवत्सु कश्चित् कुर्याद् वा? Any volunteers?

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[Shrivathsa B]

hariH OM,
sakhe,

If it is mixed (devanAgarii + english), it will be very difficult. send me a few page scans I can tell you how easy or difficult it is. For mixed content you may be better off typing from scratch.

If it is only devanAgarii content, send me the scans and I will do it. if the scans are of 300 dpi, the OCR output will be quite good.

svasti,
       JAYA BHAVAANII BHAARATII,
                                                      shrivathsa.

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[Nityanand Misra]

Before you reinvent the wheel, take a look here:

https://archive.org/stream/ADictionaryOfSanskritGrammarByMahamahopadhyayaKashinathVasudevAbhyankar/DictionaryOfSanskritGrammar_abhyankar_djvu.txt

 

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

+vedam_chandu who is interested in following up on this.

I've never done OCR myself, so I request more experienced list-folk to guide him as needed.

Here is some links to OCR software : 

1. Sanskrit optical character recognition (OCR) tools(T, A, D1, B, X, Gdrive-SP).

To start off try D1.​

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

I observed that https://archive.org/stream/ADictionaryOfSanskritGrammarByMahamahopadhyayaKashinathVasudevAbhyankar/DictionaryOfSanskritGrammar_abhyankar_djvu.txt already has a crude OCR which does not recognize devanAgarI.

Luckily using the wonderful infrastructure and a couple of hundred machines I have access to at my workplace, I was able cobble together something to get a better OCR in about an hour - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sanskrit-coders/stardict-sanskrit/master/sa-head/abhyankar-grammar/abhyankar-grammar-gocr.txt  . Now, all that remains is for someone to:
1] Mark new headwords with a string - say "############". 
2] Fix egregious errors - especially in the headwords - to facilitate lookup. Typo errors in the meanings are more tolerable (usually the fixes are obvious to the reader).

For example:

in the current text we have:

हेमाब्दानुशासनलधुन्यास a short comm-
entary on Hemacandra'sSabdanu-
Sव्रsana written by Devendrastri.
हेमाब्दानुशासनव्राते a short gloss call-
ed अवचूरि also, written by a Jain
grammarian नन्दसुन्दर on the ईम-
इब्दानुद्भासन. _
ह्यस्तनी imperfect tense; a term
used by ancient grammarians for
the affixes of the immediate past
tense, but not comprising the
present day, corresponding to the
term लङ्क of Pafini. The term is
found in the Katantra and Haima-
candra grammars; cf. Kt. III.
1.23, 27; cf. Hema. III. 3.9.
इस्व short, a term used in connec-
tion with the short vowels taking
a umit of time measured by one
matra for their utterance: cf.
ऊकालेोज्इरस्वदीर्घप्लुत: P. I. 2.27.

This should be replaced with (note bolded letters such as श ह्र which have been fixed.):
############
हेमाशब्दानुशासनलधुन्यास a short comm-
entary on Hemacandra's Sabdanu-
Sव्रsana written by Devendrastri.
हेमाब्दानुशासनव्राते a short gloss call-
ed अवचूरि also, written by a Jain
grammarian नन्दसुन्दर on the हेम-
शब्दानुद्भासन. _
############
ह्यस्तनी imperfect tense; a term
used by ancient grammarians for
the affixes of the immediate past
tense, but not comprising the
present day, corresponding to the
term लङ्क of Pafini. The term is
found in the Katantra and Haima-
candra grammars; cf. Kt. III.
1.23, 27; cf. Hema. III. 3.9.
############
ह्रस्व short, a term used in connec-
tion with the short vowels taking
a umit of time measured by one
matra for their utterance: cf.
ऊकालेोज्इरस्वदीर्घप्लुत: P. I. 2.27.

[Shreevatsa R]

This is wonderful!

It may be better to keep the OCR result as separate pages, and have them associated with the original images.

This can help in two ways:

(1) whoever volunteers to proofread it can use something like Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/) or Wikisource (see screenshots in attached images) to proofread the text by seeing the scanned book page beside it, and 

(2) it may be helpful to include with each entry a link to the page in the book, so that even if the reader/user suspects OCR errors, they can click on the link and see the original page. (I've used this feature in the MW dictionary a few times.)

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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

What a great suggestion! Done with https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sanskrit-coders/sanskrit-ocr-r0/master/vaak/vyAkaraNam/abhyankar-grammar/abhyankar-grammar-gocr.txt (new home of the file).

[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

I am planning to seek volunteers for (what I hope) will be a big OCR-ing project . But before that, I want to figure out the smoothest flows for proofreading. Can anyone help me achieve the views suggested by shrIvatsa for this book?

[shankara]

Vishvasji,

I appreciate your efforts in digitizing Sanskrit kosas. In the case of Abhyankar's dictionary it is necessary to note that this book is not yet in open domain. It was first published in 1961. I am not sure about the year of demise of the author (It must be after 1961). As per Indian Copyright act, a book  goes to public domain only after 60 years from the year/date of demise of the author if the copyright is with the author or his family. If the copyright is with the publisher, then the book enters open domain after 60 years from the date of publication i.e. in this case it is in 1921.

 

regards
shankara

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[विश्वासो वासुकिजः (Vishvas Vasuki)]

OK - succeeded in setting up proofreading on sanskrit wikisource using instructions from here:

Proofreading setup on wikisource:

• djvu file
• wikisource index

Now all one needs to do is copy 

• OCR-ed text here to the appropriate pages.
• Correct stuff progressively.

All of the above is linked here 

[ajit.gargeshwari]

Shankaraji,

You mean 2021. You are right its better always to ask for publishers consent for materials which are under copy-write and normally publishers do give their consent. Problem will arise if publishers objects and more problems will arise if the publishers take a legal course. Normally they don't.

[shankara]

Ajitji,

You are right. Please read 2021 in place of 1921.

 

regards
shankara

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[Manish Modi]

Mr Shankara is quite right. Here is the Indian Copyright Act, 1957. Please go through it carefully.

Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf

[Manish Modi]

Mr Shankara is quite right. Here is the Indian Copyright Act, 1957. Please go through it carefully.

Indian Copyright Act, 1957.

http://copyright.gov.in/Documents/CopyrightRules1957.pdf

Manish

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

If a formal permission from the publisher has not been taken this crowd sourcing and oCRing for this book needs to be stopped.

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

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[Pradyumna Achar]

The publisher seems to be MSU Baroda
A list of publications under the Gaekwad Oriental Series is at their website:
http://www.msubaroda.ac.in/faculty.php?action=home&fac_id=17

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

One needs to contact
Prof. Sweta Prajapati
Director
Oriental Institute,
The M.S.University of Baroda
Opp. Palace Gate, palace Road,
Vadodara  - 390001 (Guj)
M: +919898472669
Email swet...@gmail.com

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

[Ajit Gargeshwari]

I spoke with The director She has asked the volunteers group leader to send her a formal request and then she will consider her request. The request and purpose needs to be clear. She has asked the request to be sent to spraja...@yahoo.co.in

Regards
Ajit Gargeshwari
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः।
अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।

[Anunad Singh]

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