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The Objective of this project is to develop robust OCR's for printed Indian scripts, which can deliver desired performance for possible conversion of legacy, printed documents into electronically accessible format. The integrated OCR system will be developed for Bangla, Devnagari, Malayalam, Gujrati, telgu, Tamil, Oriya, Tibetan/Nepal, Gurmukhi, Kannada with Font and point-size independent recognition capability.

The area of coverage of the project is Printed Text OCR. The implementing Agency comprises of Consortium of 11 Institutions with IIT Delhi as Consortium Leader The list of all 11 Institutions is listed below: