[Commons-Law] Web archives of Indian Literature

[Thaths]

Manish,

A friend of mine wrote a piece in The Hindu Literary Supplment a while
ago on Indian (esp. Tamil) public domain literature. See:

http://www.hindu.com/lr/2005/03/06/stories/2005030600010100.htm

Subash is Cc-ed in this email.

Thaths

On 6/18/05, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone help him
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Manish <humble.learner at gmail.com>
> Date: 17-Jun-2005 10:52
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  I am exploring the option of puting the indian literature on the web
>  and making it available free of cost. My searches on google show that
>  there is very little available and whatever is there is difficult to
>  use. In this respect, I would like your assistance in following areas:
> 
>  1. If you are willing to volunteer, let me know.
>  2. if you are willing to assist in anyother way (like arranging the
>  hard copy of book etc), let me know.
>  3. I want to compile a list of all the indian books that can be put in
>  the form of free e-text without violating the copyright law of the
>  land. If someone has such a list, please post it here.
>  4. Let me know if similar efforts are going on somewhere else.
>  5. If someone knows the technological tools that could accelarate the
>  process of making e-books from hardcopy, please post them here. I was
>  wondering is there a software which converts scanned gif image of
>  indian scripts into unicode?
> 
> 
>  Regards
>  Manish
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