hrishikeshrt / chanda

Sanskrit Meter Identification and Utilization

Chandojñānam

Sanskrit meter identification and utilization system.

• Friendly user interface to display the scansion
• Fuzzy matches based on sequence matching,
• Capability to process entire file
• Ability to identify meters from images with the help of OCR.

Source code for https://sanskrit.iitk.ac.in/jnanasangraha/chanda/

Installation

• Install Python requirements using

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Copy settings.sample.py to settings.py and configure settings.

Note: OCR systems need to be setup independently.

Google OCR

• Link: https://pypi.org/project/google-drive-ocr/
• Follow setup instructions to setup a project on Google Cloud Platform

Tesseract OCR

• Link: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
• Also install language files for Indian languages such as Sanskrit (san), Marathi (mar), Hindi (hin), Bengali (ben), Telugu (tel), Tamil (tam), Kannada (kan), Malayalam (mal), Gujarati (guj) etc.
• e.g., sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-(san|mar|hin|ben|tel|tam|kan|mal|guj)