Nayana - Malayalam Optical Character Recognition Software - Eva 1.0

Nayana – Malayalam Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software – Eva is a dedicated tool for converting scanned pages and PDF documents containing printed Malayalam text into clean, searchable, and editable Unicode content. Developed by RCILTS–Malayalam at C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram, it is designed to streamline digitization workflows for libraries, archives, publishers, and researchers working with Malayalam books, newspapers, and historical materials.

Key capabilities:

• Robust recognition of printed Malayalam across common fonts and layouts, including books, magazines, and newspaper pages.
• Conversion from images and PDFs to Unicode Malayalam text for easy editing, indexing, and reuse.
• Image pre-processing options (such as de-skewing and noise reduction) to improve OCR results on imperfect scans.
• Batch processing to handle multi-page documents and large collections efficiently.
• Interactive review and correction interface with dictionary-assisted suggestions to speed up post-OCR proofreading.
• Flexible export to popular formats (plain text, formatted text, and other standard document types) for downstream publishing and archival systems.

Notes for best results:

• Use clean, high-resolution scans (around 300 dpi or higher) and proper page alignment.
• Complex layouts, very small fonts, or degraded originals may require manual touch-up during review.
• The tool targets printed text; handwriting is not supported.

Developed and maintained by RCILTS–Malayalam, C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram, Nayana (Eva) helps preserve and unlock Malayalam textual heritage by making printed content digitally accessible and reusable.

Nayana - Malayalam Optical Character Recognition Software - Eva is developed by RCILTS - MALAYALAM, CDAC Thiruvananthapuram.. The most popular version of this product among our users is 1.0.

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