Open Type Fonts

An OpenType Font is a digital font adhering to the OpenType specification. OpenType fonts provide the advanced typography features required for complex writing systems – such as Brahmi and Semitic language scripts. The OpenType specification enables support for ligatures, positional forms, alternates, and other substitutions. OpenType fonts also may include information that supports two-dimensional glyph positioning and glyph attachment. OpenType fonts are used in conjunction with a script processing library and the OpenType Library Services (OTLS). The OTLS is a set of text-processing helper functions. In the Windows Operating System, the Uniscribe and OLTS are part of the operating system libraries.

GIST-DVOT/GIST-TMOT range of OT font is for Devanagari/Tamil script, developed by GIST Group of C-DAC. The languages written using the Devanagari script - Hindi, Marathi, etc are supported by this font. The special features of the Devanagari script, namely the ‘reph’, ‘rakar’, ‘akhands’ (conjuncts), ‘nukta’, reordering and repositioning of characters, below-base forms, half forms are implemented in this font. The glyph set of this font have been optimized to get the best performance.

The fonts are aesthetically developed specially for the purpose of content creation and display. The readability of the font is greatly enhanced due to the uniformity of the shapes of the glyphs of the font. The font is embeddable which means that static web content can be developed using this font and displayed in a browser without any download.

Target application areas:

It provides rich support to a number of natural Indian languages as well as any International languages.

There are no 2 opinions of making such applications accessible to non-English speaking users since it would otherwise be impossible to tap its true potential particularly in countries like India, where the non-English speaking population is in majority. An application independent of natural language constraints would not only broaden its user-base, across domains, but would further dissemination of information. The multi-lingual feature assumes significance in rural areas, where a person can use this vernacular to communicate.

BharateeyaOO.o = Bharateeya(Indian) + OO.o(OpenOffice.org)

The BharateeyaOO.o project is an initiative to bring OpenOffice.org to India in Indian languages, by the ICT Research and Training Centre (India), as part of activities of the Development Gateway Foundation.

Sailent Features of BharateeyaOO.o

Email in Indian Languages

Firefox in Tamil

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Min Olai is a Tamil Editor with Spell Checker

Min olai (‘o’ in olai is pronounced as ‘o’ in ‘open’), is a simple Tamil editor developed by AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai. Based on Java, the editor allows a user to type in Tamil and provides all the options for basic editing apart from the additional feature of Tamil spell checking.

The spell checker uses the Tamil morphological analyser as a building block and also has another sophisticated strategy for spell checking using frequent words and employs edit distance approach for generating and ranking alternate words for misspelt words.

Tamil Optical Character Reconization Software-Pon Vizhi developed by Learn Fun

Pon Vizhi –With good printing on good paper, near 100% accuracy is possible. It has default font information built into it. It can recognize a large number of fonts without any training.

For some fonts which do not suit the available font information, OCR can be trained for that particular font. There are special facilities for making the required corrections very quickly. For example, just right clicking on a wrong letter will change it to the nearest correct letter. Automatic viewing of the concerned line, making paragraphs from the text are some of the special features.

Tamil Dictionary by Palaniappa Brothers

Pals e-Dictionary, and English-English-Tamil dictionary CDROM, is the first product from this new initiative of Palaniappa Brothers. This dictionary contains commonly used phrases which has over 20,000 main entries and 30,000 derived entries. It allows Search in English and Tamil for partial and full word. It has Pseudo Synonyms reference capability and Hyper Linked word search capability

The Tamil - Tamil – English has over 49,000 entries with a word search facilty in Tamil and English. It has root word search capability, full word and partial word search, Pseudo Synonyms reference and Hyper Linked word search capability.

The various software and wide plethora of fonts is brought to you by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology. We dedicate this to the nation for free usage by the masses.