AI-Based Palm Leaf Manuscript Reader

Developed by Tamil Technology Research Center - Bannari Amman Institute Of Technology

 

We Won 🏆 3rd Prize at Kanitamil24 Hackathon for this project, and with the intention of developing the AI Tamil community, we are releasing the code of this project version 1.

Our Team 💪

1. Dr.Balamurugan V T - https://www.linkedin.com/in/balamurugan-varadarajan-52a41b6/
2. Mr.Pravin Savaridass M - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pravin-savaridass-00536b61/
3. Mr.Gokul S - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gokul1308/
4. Mr.Udhayamoorthy S - https://www.linkedin.com/in/udhaya-moorthy-277357259/
5. Mr.Harikrishnan S - https://www.linkedin.com/in/harikrishnan-s-022804267/
6. Ms.Dhikshitha S - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhikshitha/
7. Ms.Nandhini S - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nanthini-sk16/

⚠️CAUTION: This project may only be utilized for academic research by including citations in your study; It is not allowed for commercial use...

Shield:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

How to run this project 🏃

1. Download⬇️ the code (from the top right corner)

2. Extract the zip file📁

3. Install python 3.10 or newer 🐍
   

   Official Python Site: https://www.python.org/downloads/

4. Install the requirements 📝✅

   1. Open command prompt(cmd/terminal)
   2. change the directory to the downloaded project
   3. install the requirements in requirements.txt
      You have many options
      

   Directly pip install in the cmd
   

   pip install -r requirements.txt

   (OR)

   Create a virtual environment in the project folder and install it (recommended)
   

   • python -m venv venv - creating a virtual environment named venv
     

   • ./venv/Scripts/activate - to activate the virtual environment
     

     NOTE: This may not allow some system to active the venv in the terminal
     to overcome this run the following commands
     Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force
     now run ./venv/Scripts/activate

   • pip install -r requirements.txt - install the requirements

5. Run the app.py file 🏃‍♀️
   

   python app.py
   The Application runs in https://127.0.0.1:5000 default

6. Index page - About Our Team

   

7. Characters Page

   You can upload the palm leaf manuscripts by clicking the upload button and waiting for some time to get the output
   Note: you can use the demo palm leaves in the 'static/input/' folder

   

8. Numerals Page

   You can also run the numerals page in the top right corner

   

NOTE: The Deep Learning Model is trained using the data collected from Tamil Virtual Academy(TVA), the model can perform well if the input is similar as the given demo images

Special Thanks 🙏

• Dr.Muthukumar K - Tamil Department, Assistant Professor, Kongunadu Arts & Science College.
• Tamil University - Tanjore
• Yakkai Arakattalai
• Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA)