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December 4th, 2014
Call for application: Free licenses of SanskritOCR for the preservation of Sanskrit literature
We are very pleased to announce that due to the funding proposal of a generous sponsor, we are able to offer 15 free licenses of SanskritOCR to those who are residing in India and 5 free licenses of SanskritOCR to those who are residing in other countries. The licenses will be awarded till Vasant Panchami to those who are dedicated towards the preservation of Sanskrit scriptures and literature. The software licenses will be awarded based on the following information. Please note that we can only accept applications if the complete information is provided. Please provide the information below.- Your name, e-mail address, and mail address with country (Telephone # optional)
- Name of affiliated organization or website, if any
- Type of projects you are working in for Sanskrit Language preservation
- Have you used this or similar software before?
- Have you performed any Sanskrit preservation work before? If yes, can you describe it?
- On which particular scriptures or books are you planning to work for conversion and preservation? Any thematic focus of your preservation work?
- Are you planning to make the digitized Sanskrit texts publicly available, e.g., by uploading the digital texts into a web repository?
