This projects aims to develop an Optical Character Recognizer that can recognize Bangla Scripts. This project will contain the necessary contents for the research and development of a Bangla / Bengali OCR. This will equally focus on building necessary tools that will eventually help on OCR development.

Few of the documents related to BanglaOCR development is posted on our blog: http://crblpocr.blogspot.com/

Feedback: We are expecting feedback from the users or developers. Please send feedback to the following email address: bangla.ocr@gmail.com

Acknowledgement:
Bangla OCR team always acknowledges to:

Prof. B. B. Chaudhuri
Professor & Head
Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Unit
Indian Statistical Institute

Prof. Dr. Thomas Breuel
DFKI and Technical University Kaiserslautern

Ray Smith
Google Research

because of their inspirations and prior research activities.

Responsibilities:
Center for Research on Bangla Language Processing (CRBLP).

This center is supported in part by a grant from the PAN Localization Project (PanL10n) of the International Development Research Corporation (IDRC) of Ottawa, Canada.