Urdu OCR – A Digital Dream
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Author:
Ali Raza Shaikh
Disclaimer: This is not a startup company - These are some bright young students, they only needs encouragement and motivation. Maybe their current solution is not that good but still we all start with low quality solutions and improve it over the period of time. Lets look at this from that point of view.
Optical Character Recognition is a unique approach developed for recognizing isolated character that requires less complex calculations but still giving adequate results. In case of document image recognition, an additional step of detecting lines of text and possible set of character among those lines is a requisite. There are numerous methods available for character recognition. From numerical and statistical approach to AI based approach in an increasing order of their recognition accuracy, respectively. None of the approaches stated has recognition accuracy of 100%.Even the humans are not credited with absolute recognition accuracy. The main objective of the recognition software is to help its user in more physically tiring and cumbersome work of actually typing the whole document especially for a user. The error correction still resides with its user only. Hence, a recognition accuracy of even about 90% gives very satisfactory results. Apart from all this, the image quality also plays a very important role in the recognition accuracy.
So, a research project named Urdu OCR – A Digital Dream from Usman Institute of Technology fulfilling the needs. The team members of this project are Abdul Wahab, Shuwair Sardar, and Muhammad Abdul Sammad Khan. First prize winner of Combat 2008 (Software Competition – PAF Kiet) and Software Exhibition (Software Competition – SZABIST). Great work guys!
Urdu OCR is developed for first time. It has not been developed yet. The need of this product is in the printing media like Urdu news paper and magazines. It is useful in converting the books of Urdu in digital format, the large amount of useful and heritage data in Urdu language which are in vanishing form can be saved in digital format. It can produce electronic books and digital Urdu library online.
7:04 pm
go on pls!
8:58 pm
To the developers … Salaam … Please let me know when your software is ready …
email:
4:15 pm
A very nice effort ! Please take guidance from Arabic OCR software which are available commercialy.
9:55 pm
hi, its great!!!
pls let me know when and where I can get this software??
11:38 pm
I want this software
i am very happy urdu ocr
8:29 am
To all the people who are working on it.
First of all I would like to appreciate your work…It was a piece of software which was really needed and you people are doing a great job.
I am very much interested in using this software. Please let me know when it is ready or even if beta version is ready….
Thanks..
Shahid
5:58 pm
Hi .. Salaam ….
Please mail me with regards to the Urdu ocr software … I would like to purchase ….
Regards
Naeem
6:18 pm
Who reads Urdu literature these days (besides idiots and low lifers). What a waste of time developing this software,… such shame.
8:01 pm
Aslam o Aliakum
very good
please mail me I want to perchase ocr urdu soft
ware
jazak allah
8:03 pm
aslam o aliakum
plz send me your cell No On my email
adress
Wasslam
10:38 am
@ guru
Aap bhi lagta hai ahmaqoN ke jahannum me rahte haiN.
4:16 pm
assalaam waliqum.
janab ager aap ka software Urdu OCR tayaar ho gaya hay to please mujhay send kardo aap ke bari meher bani hogi.
8:38 am
Assalam-o-Alaikum,
JazakAllah, very good and useful effort. But please tell me when it was ready. I am waiting for it.
Walsalam
3:38 pm
I am interested in this software. If you can demonstrate me, I can sell this software to many organizations.
9:21 pm
I am also interested to purchase the programme “Urdu OCR”. Want to know that when will it be completed and when its sale will start.
Regards
Nadeem
11:35 am
bohat achi koshis hay,
I am also interested to purchase the programme “Urdu OCRâ€. Want to know that when will it be completed and avialble for sale.
pl. send me ur contact
Regards
zafar
12:03 pm
Can I buy urdu or Pashto OCR from some whear
10:18 pm
Aslam-o-Alikom
Very nice. Very nice, Very nice.
guys! i want demonstration and purchase it. Plz send me your contact nos.
Your earliest response will be furnished.
Thanking you
Your faithfully
Muhammad Irshad Ali Qadri Attari
11:20 am
It is a good effort. However, to leave such an effort midway will be bad.
I encourage you to continue working on it towards achieving the bigger goal of digitizing Urdu books.
If you people can contact me, I will be glad to provide whatever assistance I can in this regard.
Regards
Aamer Munir
Assistant Professor (EE)
NU-FAST Islamabad.
11:48 am
Asalaomoalikum
Thanks to all for your nice comments.
I am one of the developers of this software we are still in the developing face we will be launching this software in few months you guys can contact us on following :
Shuwair Sardar :
Abdul Wahab :
7:47 pm
it is really a great job kindly provide me such software
10:43 pm
Keep it up guys!
You need not be discouraged by any negative comments from people who have no idea of the worth of this work.
Prayers & best wishes
Arsalan I.
London
10:37 pm
Dear Students
you are really doing a great job for the service of our Urdu language. Actually you have started your work from a scratch and every one in future will follow your ideas and your work will be honoured in in the history of Urdu.
carry on.
with best wishes.
3:59 pm
کیا اپڈیٹس Ûیں اس Ú©ÛŒ
ریلیز ÛÙˆ گیا کیا؟
10:31 am
AOA yar i student of QAU islamabad this is my final projrct to develop an urdu OCR for atleast two fonts….
so plz mail me helping material related to urdu OCR
thanx
4:29 am
Really great work!
A link to the developers’ website will be most helpful. (Your post is incomplete without this main link.)
12:41 pm
AOA
Dear that’s a really great effort. Can you please update me about the software status. I mean its completed or not. IF completed then what’s the method to get it. I mean what’s its price. Further if you can please write down your contact number i need to talk you.
Regards
Muhammad Umair
1:37 pm
I need your software, can you send me setup of your project?
1:38 pm
my email address is
12:38 am
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what will be the price of the Urdu OCR Products
10:34 am
Haven’t you try Free OCR? It’s a free OCR service and the accurate is good.
1:42 pm
hey um sunil , i posted a comment here and asked for helping material regarding to develop an urdu ocr , dint get fro anyone , but now i have develop my own ocr for urdu named as ” uOCR “……….. thanx
2:36 am
I dont think that u truely made this software and u didnot show well thats ur program extracted all sentence in edittable form may be u r software accuracy is 25% or ???
2:37 am
I dont think that u truely made this software and u didnot show well thats ur program extracted all sentence in edittable form may be u r software accuracy is 25% or less..
5:26 pm
Asalaomoalikum dear urdu OCR bana nia per ap ko mabarak ho moje be is ke zaroat hai moje aik copy URDU OCR ke zeroat hai kya ap moj se rapata kr saktay ho thnx Allah Hafiz
10:28 pm
aoa…..im doing a final year project on augmented reality(a device that converts textual data into a speech )…..so i need of u guys….it is a noble cause for blinds…..kindly contact me on my e-mail address….waiting for ur reply.
REGARDS
5:05 pm
AOA,
I would like to appreciate your work & great job.
I am very much interested in purchase of this software. Please let me know when it is ready.
Thanks..
Muhammad Umar Hayat
6:43 am
Please send the software
11:59 am
Asalaomoalikum
Dear all I am one of the researchers of this project we have recently published a research paper on this subject in IEEE. We are still doing research on this subject, covering others aspects necessary for Urdu OCR. Interested audience can access paper from blow link:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5625694
Kind Regard:
Shuwair Sardar
8:29 pm
Alsalam-o-Alikum,
This is great work done by these students plz let me know where I can find this software ?
2:56 am
Would like to get hold of this…. Can English translation be added in…..
7:50 pm
if you ppl bring thismuch needed programm into market ,it will be great service to urdu lovers .so keep it up guys. i am dying to see n use this urdu OCR of yours. how much time it ll take to be launched?
4:43 pm
Hi,
Tell me
Urdu(language) scanned documents convert to Ms office in which software.
3:26 pm
I need this software. Please guide me how can I get it.
Thanks.
10:27 am
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