This project undertakes the training and analysis of optical character recognition OCR methods applied to 10th century ancient Tamil inscriptions discovered on the walls of the Brihadeeswarar Temple.The chosen OCR methods include Tesseract,a widely used OCR engine,using modern ICR techniques to pre process the raw data and a box editing software to finetune our model.The analysis with Tesseract aims to evaluate their effectiveness in accurately deciphering the nuances of the ancient Tamil characters.The performance of our model for the dataset are determined by their accuracy rate where the evaluated dataset divided into training set and testing set.By addressing the unique challenges posed by the script's historical context,this study seeks to contribute valuable insights to the broader field of OCR,facilitating improved preservation and interpretation of ancient inscriptions
@article{arxiv.2405.17449,
title = {Image Based Character Recognition, Documentation System To Decode Inscription From Temple},
author = {Velmathi G and Shangavelan M and Harish D and Krithikshun M S},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17449},
year = {2024}
}
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This research paper is a part of capstone project submitted to VIT Chennai, VIT University