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Font Converters And Syntax Corrector Hemant Patil, Center For Indian Language Technology, IIT Bombay , Powai
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MARATHI FONTS
Existing marathi texts/web sites use many different fonts and encodings
E.g. susha, dvtt-yogesh, akruti, subak, shivaji, devpooja,
No unique standard has been followed
Encodings of Glyphs are different in different fonts.
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FONTS (continued…)
e.g.
Word : Baart
Shusha: Baart
DvttYogesh: ¦É®iÉ
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FONTS (continued…)
Disadvantages :
Search cannot be performed
directly .
Information about each font must be stored in database.
User may have to use different fonts for typing one search string
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WHY CONVERTERS?
There Must be some standard for representations
Convert the string in given font encoding in a standard encoding and search only the standard encoding.
We have choose ISCII coding for common representation.
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6. CONVERTERS (continued…)
Conversion from font to ISCII
Many to one mapping.
Conversion from ISCII to font
One to many mapping.
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7. NEW CONVERTERS WRITTEN BY US
YOGESH
AKRUTI
ISCII
IITK
SHUSHA
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8. Converters Provided by IIIT,Hyderabad
SHREE962
ANKIT
XDVNG
ISCII
MILAP
YOGESH
SHUSHA
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9. Syntax checkers and correctors
Syntax checker for Akruti_Priya_expanded font
Syntax checker for ISCII
Autocorrector for Akruti_Priya_expanded font
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