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From: "krishna kashyap" <kkalale1@xxxxxxxxxx>


> How can anyone scan in old texts. That way we can store the info.
> If you can find out what tools are needed and how one can do that it
> will be great
>

The process of bringing out a text electronically involves the following
Note: A variantof this process was used for the Sri bhasya

1. A copyright clearance process.
Depending on the text in question, and the need for distribution this
would be one of the following
a) All texts "first" printed pre-1923 are free of copyright as a general
rule
of thumb.
b) For those printed later permission from either the author, publisher or
estate.

2. Scanning in
All this requires is a $49-$69 scanner for most works and once attached
to a computer this can be easily scanned in. The files are typically saved
in .png format to take advantage of space etc.

3. OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Typically, the scanner comes with OCR software. For english texts the
scanned image can be OCR'd to produce raw digital text output. This
will typically have numerous errors and would need proofing
Although recently a Sanskrit OCR has been announced by Dr.
Venugopal http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/ILT it's efficacy is yet to
be determined. For Tamil texts none exist, although I have been working
with Project Madurai who are now testing out the Distributed Proofreading
software url - http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai


4. Proofread the OCR'd text.
This can be done manually or through the use of a Distributed Proofreading
process.
for. e.g. http://www.pgdp.net

5. Release the e-text
If it is copyright free, typically at the start of the process one would use
the legal
services of a group such as Project guttenbewrg to ensure that it is free of
copyright free and subsequetly Project Guttenberg would e-release it in
their
collection.

Since images etc. take up significant web-space i.e. in the gigabytes
besides needing wide exposure, sripedia.org has gained official status
with ibiblio giving it wide exposure, mirroring on mulitple locations
worldwide
and access to as-large-as needed web space and bandwidth. Note
archive.org is way beyond tera and now reaching petabytes in storage.

Please feel free to ask me any further questions that you may have.

Thanks
Srinivasan Sriram




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