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WEB PORTAL OF AYURVEDA MANUSCRIPTOLOGY
National Institute of Ayurveda
(Deemed To be University)
Ministry of AYUSH,
Govt. of India

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Roadmap to Manuscriptology
Roadmap to Manuscriptology:
STAGE 1 : DIGITIZATION
  1. Digitize palm leaf using a scanner
  2. Process the Image
    1. Removal of Noise
    2. Reconstruction of the Image if broken
STAGE 2 – DECIPEHERING
  1. Develop Optical Character Recognition software (OCR)
  2. OCR should recognize:
    1. Printed Alphabets
    2. Handwriting
    3. Other related scripts
  3. OCR to be developed mainly for:
    1. Devanagari
    2. Nandinagari
    3. Grantha Script
    4. Other Scripts that are used in Manuscripts
STAGE 3: EDITING Phase I
  1. Speech Synthesis
  2. Speech Recognition
STAGE 3: EDITING Phase II
  1. Syntactic Analysis- conforming to the rules of syntax
  2. Semantic Analysis- the study of meaning
STAGE 3: EDITING Phase III
  1. Morphological Analysis
  2. Identification of Sandhi & Samasa (Compound Letters and Compound Words)
  3. Shabdabodha
STAGE 3: EDITING Phase IV
  1. Spell Check Program
  2. Finalizing text etc.
STAGE 4: FINALIZING
  1. Performing those tasks required for finalizing the texts. Like:
    1. Comparison of readings (automated using matrix method etc.)
    2. Checking for inconsistencies in meanings etc.
    3. Other related works.