Tools and Techniques for Hindi Computing
Hindi Help and FAQ
Can not see Hindi (Viewing Hindi pages on the Internet)
Wikipedia : Enabling complex text support for Indic scripts
"How to" at SARVAGYA : info about Hindi emailing, blogging and more..
Enabling and Typing Indian Languages in Microsoft Windows XP : Dr Indic
How to enable your computer read and write Hindi ( info on WIN & Linux based systems)
Display Problems ? : a short article at Unicode.com
How to Type Devanagari ( Hindi) on Computers - Recommended Devanagari editors
Multilingual Browsers & Email Clients : How to make them multilingual ?
Test for Unicode support in Web browsers for Devanagari
Use this tool to FIX your Hindi mail which is corrupted
Hindi Editing Tools
Online Tools
कुशीनारा हिन्दी तूलिका (बीटा)
यूनिनागरी : बिना ताम-झाम का देवनागरी टाइपराइटर
यूनिस्क्रिप्ट : Based on Inscript Keyboard
हिन्दी संपादक तथा वर्तनी जाँचकर्ता
Hindi Keyboard ( Chhahari)
Gopi's Phonetic Roman to Unicode Hindi Converter
शिवालय हिन्दी लेखनी (UTF-8 Hindi Typerwriter)
अंकित जैन का आनलाइन यूनिकोड संपादक
Devanagari Generator
Girish Dalvi's D-Board and Sandbox
Transliterate to Hindi/Sanskrit
DiacWin Unicode - Keyboard Filter for Windows
WriteKA : a Roman to Hindi transliteration tool
Get2Home.com - Hindi : Hindi free text, Hindi email, Hindi search
Download for Offline Use
Baraha : free Indian languages editor
Hindi Unicode Editor (HUG-2)
यूनिकोड देवनागरी सम्पादित्र
छहारी देवनागरी टाईपराइटर
तख्ती : यूनिकोड हिन्दी सम्पादक
Aksharmaalaa
Maadhyam Devanagari Editor
HindiWriter - by Devendra Parakh
Akshar for Windows ( editor )
HindiTrans 2.0 (editor)
Ankit Jain's Hindi Editor with many keybords
Itranslator 2003 from Omkaranand Ashram
IWrite32 - A utility to write documents in Indian fonts
Hindi Indic IME Version 5.0 for Office 2003
MS Office 2003 Hindi : Information
Indian Scripts Input System (ISIS) - Unicode based, Supports many scripts
Yudit : a free Unicode editor for Devanagari and many others
Hindi Word-Processing
LEAP Office 2000 (Complete Indian Language Software)
ISM Office (Gets existing packages to work in Indian languages)
Lism (Linux based application for Indian languages)
iLEAP (Intelligent, Internet ready, Indian LanguageWordprocessor)
CHITRANKAN (Documentation made easy, Digitally)
ISM Publisher (Cost effective solution for Indian language publishing)
Apex Language Processor (Character based Wordprocessor)
ALP-PersonalApe
The Apex Language Processor is an Indian language Word-Processor on DOS. This is a free version of the full software – ALP.
Download H-Word : Hindi word processor ver 2.0
MS Office 2003 Hindi : Information
Font Converters
Legacy Hindi Fonts to Unicode Converter (Online)
Shusha To Unicode Converter
Devanagari Font Conversion : FontSuvidha 5.0
जब कोई चारा न हो, हिन्दी लिखने के लिये प्रयोग करें : iTrans
iTrans to Devanagari Converter (Online)
iTrans to Devanagari Converter (free download)
Rupaantar : Universal Converter of Hindi files from IITK
Font Convertion among major Hindi Fonts from LTRC, IIIT (online)
Font Converters from LTRC, IIIT (for download)
Font converter allows you to do the following: If you have texts which
are font specific, you can convert them to ISCII (standard character
coding scheme) or to another font (14 fonts).
ISCII Plug-in for viewing texts in Devanagari fonts provided by CADC
Indian Dynamic Fonts
Devanagari (Hindi) Fonts: Complete Guide
TBIL Data Converter : Transliteration between data in font/ASCII/Roman format in Office documents into a Unicode form in any of 7 Microsoft-supported Indian languages
naamabhaaratii : Name transliteration program
हिन्दी छविया : Online Hindi to Image Converter (png)
Script Converters
गिरगिट : भारतीय लिपियों का परस्पर परिवर्तन का औजार
Anusaarakas
Anusaaraka is a computer software which renders text from one Indian language into another.
Girish Dalvi's Transliterator from Devanagari to major Indian Scripts
Hindi Unicode to Tamil Unicode Converter
Online Interface to Itrans : to generate documents in different Indian Scripts
Hindi Computing in MS Windows
Bhasha India Homepage
Windows Indic Script Support information
How to enable Hindi support at OS level in Windows?
Use the Indic IME to type (input) Hindi
इंडिक आई एम ई की मदद से हिंदी टाइप कीजिए
Download Hindi IME
Download Windows XP LIP (Hindi) if you want Hindi interface for Windows XP
Installing The Windows XP Hindi Language Interface Pack
Download Office 2003 LIP (Hindi) if you want Hindi interface for MS Office 2003
ऑफ़िस हिंदी : माइक्रोसॉफ़्ट की नई सौगात
Sorting in Hindi with MS Exel and MS Word
Dictionaries
कुशिनारा शब्दकोष अल्फा : on-the-fly Hindi meaning of English terms on a webpage
Shabdakosh dot com : Eng -->Hindi (online)
Word AnyWhere : Hindi <--> English ; iTrans based
हिन्दी कोष एवं भाषान्तर ( Hindi Kosh & Bhashantar) : Hindi -->English
Indo WordNet - A Lexical database for Hindi ( Hin to Hin Dict)
हिन्दी --> हिन्दी विक्षनरी
Universal Word (English) to Hindi dictionary
Aksharmala English to Hindi Dictionary
Hindi German Dictionary
Urdu - Hindi Shabdkosh-1
Urdu - Hindi Shabdkosh-2
Eng -->Hin Dictionary (IIIT)
Unicode Eng-Hindi Dictionary
अंग्रेज़ी हिन्दी शब्दकोष पी॰डी॰ऍफ़॰ प्रारूप में
Similar sounding Hindi words
Many Dictionaries at Anukriti dot net
English-Hindi Dictionary from IIIT (download)
Shabdanjali English-Hindi dictionary (online)
'Shabdanjali' English-Hindi E-Dictionary
'Shabdanjali' English-Hindi utf Source files
Multilingual Open-mind word expert
खेल खेलो और दुनिया बदलो!
Online Dictionaries - Hindi Dictionaries
English --> Hindi dictionary with pronounciations ( vanasthali Vidyapeeth )
A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English (online)
Talking Dictionary
LingvoSoft Talking Dictionary 2006 , English <-> Hindi , for Windows
Sanskrit and other Indian language Dictionaries
Apte Sanskrit Dictionary Search (transliteration based)
Bharatiya Bhasha Kosh : common platform for 14 Indian languages
Marathi-Hindi Dictionary
Kannada-Hindi Dictionary
Telugu-Hindi Dictionary
Punjabi-Hindi Dictionary
Calita Bengali-Hindi Dictionary
Dishi Bengali-Hindi Dictionary
Cultural and other Dictionaries
आध्यात्मिक शब्दावली ( SWARGAAROHAN )
Glossary of Hindu cultural words
English --> Hindi glossary of food items from Diabetes India
Mamata's Kitchen Glossary ( Hindi <--> English)
The Recipe Master Glossary
Bawarchi Glossary
Hindi Thesauri
Hindi Corpora
Hindi Morphological Tagger of Vasu Ranganathan
Hindi/Marathi/Telugu Morphological Analyser from LTRC IIIT (online)
Morphological Analysers (for download)
Morphological analyser allows you to get the analysis(The analysis
gives the root and other features such as gender, number, tense etc.)
of the word.
Search Hindi Corpus (online) from IITB
Indian Corpora
Hindi Corpus
Most Frequent Words In Indian Languages
Frequency of Words for Hindi
Hindi Lexical Databases and tools
Indo WordNet Online : A Lexical Database for Hindi
'SabdasUtra' from LTRC, IIIT (online)
English to Hindi Translation Softwares
MANTRA : Machine Assisted Translation
अंग्रेजी से हिन्दी अनुवाद सहाय्य सिस्टम (online)
Translation Support System(English-Hindi) from CDAC, Noida
Shakti Hindi (online experimental)
Download Anusaarakas (Marathi/ Telugu/ Kannada/ Panjabi <---> Hindi)
Anusaaraka is a computer software which renders text from one Indian
language into another.
Entrans
Entrans is an online "translation" tool. The tool can be used by the online community to give suggestions for a list of English words/phrases that needs to be translated into a specific Indic Language.
Hindi to English Translation
PocketTran Translator Device
Statistical Machine Translation System (SMTS 4.0) from Language Weaver
Hindi Text to Speech ( TTS )
Two TTSs from IIIT Hyderabad and Prologix (Vaachak)
HIndi Text To Speech System from BLiSS ( Bolti Paati and others)
Dhwani TTS Prototype Online Demo (Java Version)
Vaachak : Info and Online Demo
Speech Recognition
Pen-based Handwriting
Hindi Optical Charecter Reading ( OCR )
Sansakrit OCR : SanskritReader
Hindi Optical charecter Reading
Hindi Glossaries
Download SHABDIKA from CDAC, Noida
Shabdika is a collection of glossaries of Audit, Accounting, banking, Administrative, IT Terminology Terms. This software gives the Hindi translation of all the terms of different areas.Shabdika has an easy user interface and includes following sections :
Hindi Technical Dictionaries
Glossary of Information Technology (IT)
Hindi Spell-checkers
Hindi Grammer checkers
Sorting Softwares
Krama
Hindi Programming System
हिन्दवी : Programming System for Indian Languages
MBasic ver 5.5 : Program to develop programs in Marathi Language
Popular Softwares available with Hindi Interface
Linux
Bharatiya OpenOffice
Mozila Firefox Internet Brouser
Opera web-browser
Indic Joomla : Open Source Content-mamagement System
Gmail
Oracle 9.x
Windows XP with help of Windows XP LIP ( Hindi )
MS Office 2003 with help of Office 2003 LIP ( Hindi )
Hindi Learning tools
Web-LILA (Enabling Language Learning through Web)
LILA (Learn Indian Language through Artificial Intelligence)
Devanagari Learning Tools
Accha - a very good Devanagari learning free software
Hindi Mail
Corrupted Hindi E-mail Repair Tool for reconverting corrupted Unicode Hindi.
Sending and Receiving E-Mail in Hindi under Windows : An Overview
Multilingual Browsers & Email Clients
Web Dunia Mail : ePatra
Rediffmail : supports Hindi and other Indian languages ( inbuilt editors)
LEAP Mail (eMail in Indian Languages)
Mailing System for Indian Languages (from IITB)
Girish Dalvi's Unicode-Devanagari mailing tool (online)
Hind 2000 client for Hindi, English, Gujarati email
Send Hindi Email using online keyboard --> no software needed by the receiver
Mobile Computing
Indic Input for Mobile devices: Frequently Asked Questions[PDF]
Hindi User Interface : Nokia 3210
Saral Mobile sandesh (SMS) : Nokia 1100, 1108, 2300
Use of MT and TTS for Hindi Mobile Services-Introduction
मोबाइल वेब सामग्री
Hindi SMS
Fun_Tooz_dot_Com
Send SMS in Hindi Unicode fron Fun-On-Phone
Multi-Language or Unicode SMS
Bulk SMS Service from Times_SMS_dot_com
Unicoded Hindi SMS from SMS_Warehouse
Unicode Hindi SMS from Its4SMS
TextMeFree - Your Free International SMS Guide
Hindi Search Engines
Raftaar_dot_com : searches Unicoded Hindi plus Hindi in Legacy fonts
Girish Dalvi's Search tool using Yahoo and Google engines
Google : seaches Unicoded Hindi only
Web Dunia Khoj : searches within WEBDunia site
Search at "Apana Guide" : transliteration based interface for inputting Hindi text available here
Get2Home.com - Hindi : Inscript keyboard interface for text input
Hindi Abstraction tools
Anveshak (Natural Language Based Information Retrieval System)
Saaraanshak (Natural Language based Summarizer)
Hindi Localisation Tools
Misc
LIPS (Indian Language Subtitling Solution)
LIPS Pro ( Language Subtitling Solution)
C-Vyasa (Sanskrit Authoring tool)
Bhagavadgita Reader
DESIKA (Natural Language Understanding System for Sanskrit)
GIST Card (Solution for Indian languages on DOS)
GISTOra Tools
(Server side database application development tool for the development and implementation of Indian Language enabled applications)
Document on ISCIIThis is an extract from the document on Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange.
GIST-SDK
The windows based application development kit for Indian languages is available for you to evaluate.
iplugin
This is an Indian language Web application development tool for interactive applications which achieves browser independence for MS Windows based clients.
ISM Import
ISM Import is a utility that converts data from other font formats into ISFOC format.
LISM Linux based application for Indian languages
Hindi Vishwa_Kosh (Encyclopedia)
nScript from nCore : a complete multilingual software plug-in toolkit for embedded devices.
Acrobat Reader 7.0.5 Hindi Distribution (download)
Many Indian Languages Softwares from Lingua ( for purchase)
Plug-ins and Extensions
Windows XP LIP ( Hindi) : changes your XP user interface completely into Hindi
मॉज़िल्ला-फ़ॉयरफ़ॉक्स ब्राउज़र का एक नया एक्सटेंशन "पद्मा" : Displays unicoded Hindi and many non-unicoded sites without need to download fonts.
Known Problems , remedies and recommendations
1) Unicoded Hindi mail sent from Yahoo mail gets corrupted.
2) Mozila Firefox brouser displays "chhotee i kee matraa" after the consonent, and not before the consonent as it should be.
3)
Essays and Articles on Tools and Techniques
What is Indic Computing ?
Indian Language Tecnology (ILT) VISION 2010 (pdf)
Web Internationalization in the context of Indian Languages
आइए, इनस्क्रिप्ट (InScript) सीखें
An Introduction to Writing Systems : A review of script characteristics affecting computer-based script support and Unicode
Why India is struggling with localized language computing
IBM's Glossary of Unicode Terms
Creating Hindi Web Pages
यूनिकोड क्या है?
What is Unicode?
Unicode Enabled Products ( softwares)
The Unicode Charecter codes for Devanagari
Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology (pdf)
Language Technology : a fast overview, by Hans Uszkoreit
Penn State University's Role in Facilitating International (multilingual) Computing
Guide to Localization(CDAC)
Indic and General Computing References
देवनागरी : everything about using Devanagari on computers
Sarvagya : Hindi Ka Sahakaarii Gyaankosh
Unicode Home Page
SIL International Home
Linguistics Computing Resources on the Internet from SIL
South Asia Language Resorce Centre
References Material for Multilingual Computing at CET
World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium
W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI)
CDAC
IITK
Do you know ?
Gmail supports Hindi Unicode in subject also.
Devanagari Fonts
How to install fonts ?
Devanagari Unicode Fonts for Windows
Gallery of Devanaagarii Unicode Fonts
Devanaagarii Font Complete Guide
Alan Wood's utilities for Unicode and Multilingual File Conversion, Font and Keyboard for Windows
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