Optical Character Recognition : English to Tamil and Kannada

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Optical Character Recognition English to Tamil
and Kannada
N. ANBARASANChief Executive Officer
APPLESOFT 39, 1st Cross, 1st Main, Shiva Nagar,
West of Chord Road Bangalore - 560 010 Tele
080-3386167, 3357167 Fax [phone] E-mail
arasan_at_bgl.vsnl.net.in, aplesoft_at_vsnl.com
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Language/Language pair

• Tamil and Kannada

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What is the expected category of contribution?

• Page Layout analyser, Visual Component Extractor,
  Spellchecker

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Business Volume/Financial Details

• Business type
• Products
• Projects
• Revene (Rs. In Lakhs)
• Domestic 14
• Export 7
• Clientele
• Govt departments, Schools, professionals, DTP
  centres etc

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Technical Capabilities

• Product development
• Architecture, User interface
• Product Types
• User interface layers
• Drivers
• Interactive multimedia
• Plug-ins
• Stand alones
• Vertical segments
• DTP, Schools, Offices, Video sub titling, News
  etc

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Products developed

• 1.Surabhi 9. e-Type
• 2.Surabhi GEM 10. Surabhi Tools
• 3.Surabhi Professional 11. Sujeeva
• 4.Subase 12. Visaithamizh
• 5.Surabhi 2000 13. SURABHI UV
• 6.Surabhi XP 14. Nannool
• 7.Sentamil 1A, 1B and 4 15. Aatral
• 8.Tamil Chudar 12

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Innovating technologies

• Antialiasing scalable fonts
• Vernacular interface to DOS
• Language interface to Windows
• Multilingual keyboard Manager
• Code Conversion

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Decision Process

• Quick decision making No hierarchy of
  Management trouble.

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Manpower Involved

• Our technical staff are qualified with graduation
  in computer science.

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Marketability

• Direct Marketing
• Empanelled vendor to supply its Language software
  to the departments of Govt of Karnataka and
  Tamilnadu.
• Channel Partners
• Partners to sell our products and provide
  necessary support
• Global Reach
• Singapore, Malayasia, Hong Kong, England, USA,
  Canada etc.

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Previous collaboration with universities/RD
institutions

• No formal collaborative institutional partners
• Handled projects for
• BEL, IITS, TVU, ASMT
• Cirkisys and Prodart
• University of Michigan
• Availed services of experts from CIIL, Mysore
  Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar Anna
  University, Chennai International Institute of
  Tamil Studies, Chennai Regional Institute of
  Education, Mysore.

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Previous work done in this or similar areas

• Morphological Analyser and Spellchecker
• GIS for Land records
• Scalable Bitmap
• Bitmap and Truetype fonts
• Proprietary fonts