[INDOLOGY] online symposium: Indian Ocean and Epigraphy | 1000-1300hrs CET | Dec 10, 2021

2021-12-01 Thread Arlo Griffiths via INDOLOGY
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[INDOLOGY] UCLA - 2-year lecturership in Jainism and South Asian Religions

2021-12-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear all, The Center for the Study of Religion at UCLA welcomes applications for a two-year lecturership in Jainism & South Asian Religions. The deadline for application is January 2, 2022; see more information in the link below. I would be grateful if you could forward this to anyone who wou

[INDOLOGY] John Huntington (April 6, 1937 - November 28, 2021)

2021-12-01 Thread Lindquist, Steven via INDOLOGY
I share with you all the below notice (with permission of author) from another listserv of the sad passing of John Huntington. My best, Steven STEVEN LINDQUIST, PH.D. ALTSHULER DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR ASOCIATE PROFESSOR, RELIGIOUS STUDIES DIRECTOR, ASIAN STUDIES __

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread Harry Spier via INDOLOGY
I tried sanskritCR but it was problematic making global replacements especially with nasals since it sometimes converted different characters with diacriticals to the same letter. Sent from mobile phone. On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 10:47 Timothy Cahill, wrote: > Dear Harry, >The O - Sanskrit CR (p

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread Timothy Cahill via INDOLOGY
The quality of the uploaded scan might have something to do with it. But (more likely) the standards of some Tims are higher than those of other Tims. Best, Tim On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:51 AM Lubin, Tim wrote: > I have found that SanskritCR misses far too many underdots (i.e., not even > render

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread Lubin, Tim
I have found that SanskritCR misses far too many underdots (i.e., not even rendering with cedillas) to be useful. My bad luck? Tim Lubin From: INDOLOGY on behalf of INDOLOGY Reply-To: Tim Cahill Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 10:47 AM To: Harry Spier Cc: INDOLOGY Subject: Re: [INDOL

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread Timothy Cahill via INDOLOGY
Dear Harry, The O - Sanskrit CR (pronounced "Seer") also does a tolerably good job --so you can clean up the output by replacing its umlauts with macrons, its cedillas with dots, etc., as global replacements. (Just as Diego suggested.) BTW, S. Veṅkaṭarāma Śāstri's English translation of the

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
Dear Harry, Something I do (not perfect) is taking the digital Devanagari text and input it to Google Translate set to Nepali. The phinetic transcription yields tolerable IAST text with some quirks that can be easily fixed with the "replace all" feature on Microsoft Word vel sim. (e.g. ē -> e)

Re: [INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE
"phonetic", not "phinetic"... On Wed, Dec 1, 2021, 7:18 AM DIEGO LOUKOTA SANCLEMENTE < diegolouk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Dear Harry, > > Something I do (not perfect) is taking the digital Devanagari text and > input it to Google Translate set to Nepali. The phinetic transcription > yields tol

[INDOLOGY] OCR for sanskrit transliteration

2021-12-01 Thread Harry Spier via INDOLOGY
Dear list members, Can someone point me to a good on-line tool to OCR sanskrit transliteration (english transliteration not devanagari). Thanks, Harry Spier ___ INDOLOGY mailing list INDOLOGY@list.indology.info https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo

[INDOLOGY] A request

2021-12-01 Thread Girish Jha via INDOLOGY
Dear Indologists, Could anyone please give me the scanned copy of Prof. S.D.Joshi's article titled Kaunda bhatta on Sphota published in Prof.Gaurinath Shastri Felicitation Volume. Kindest Regards, Sincerely Girish K.Jha Retd. Univ. Professor of Sanskrit Patna University,India Current Residence: K