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The Tamil digitisation project has been started with the aims to develop a software to convert the
printed Tamil books into digital form, and to publish through the Internet a collection of valuable
books in digital form. Several Tamil Digitisation projects have been undertaken by many
institutions world-wide for a long time now. “Noolaham” Institution and “Mathurai” Project have
significant contributions through their projects still now.
Tamil Digitisation tasks have scanned images of the printed documents as initial data. These images
themselves are not very useful in that searching for a word or phrase in the contents or editing
contents, or using for automated translation or any other researches that need contents of the books
are not viable, if not impossible. Once the letters and symbols in such images are recognised and
obtained in editable form, they would be very useful in many context. This is the main objective of the Tamil digitisation project, and it has made a significant contribution to power-up the researches
that need Tamil contents, and to make the books in electronically readable form being convertible to
any formats convenient to different readers.
The main participants of this project, which is sponsored by Information and Communications
Technology Agents (ICTA), are University of Colombo, School of Computing and the University
of Jaffna, Department of Computer Science. Finding ways of possibilities to take forward projects
and complete them successfully by the collaboration of Institutions lying in two-ends of Sri Lanka
that have differences in many aspects - One in Jaffna and One Colombo – is another objective of
this project.
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