Software that turns handwritten records digital

To encourage e-governance projects,Global Imaging Technology,a city-based start-up,has developed a software that enables digitisation of handwritten regional scripts.

To encourage e-governance projects,Global Imaging Technology,a city-based start-up,has developed a software that enables digitisation of handwritten regional scripts. The software uses a mixture of page management,intelligent character recognition (ICR) and regional language support to perform the task. It has already been used for projects by the Sangli Miraj-Kupwad municipal corporations and Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Office.

The software,called the Handwritten Regional Language Script Digitisation System,maps characters through their writing style,brush strokes,size,height and width and then uses ICR to convert them into a digitised format.

Arun Bhardwaj,CEO,Global Imaging Technologies said, The system works on three principles – intelligent page management,handwritten test mapping system and character recognition of Indian regional languages. The data is converted into rows and columns for effective utilisation and presentation of data and then added to the existing dictionary for accurate mapping of digital characters.

He said the technology gives upto 98 per cent accuracy. The company has successfully undertaken scanning of around 5,000 handwritten birth and death records of Sangli- Miraj-Kupwad Municipal Corporation. The software was also one of the eight finalists in the start-up category for the NASSCOM Innovative Awards 2011. It was the only entry selected from Pune.

The company also carried out a case study through NASSCOM for Navi Mumbai Police headquarters for digitisation of their service book. The upcoming projects include digitising land mutation records for Jalgaon district.

The GIT team has developed the modules for recognising and digitising handwritten data from four Indian languages Hindi,Marathi,Punjabi and Gujarati and English. They plan to expand support tomore Indian and foreign languages.

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