Digital Library of India, initially hosted by Indian Institute of Science, CDAC, Noida, IIIT-Hyderabad during 2000s working in partnership with the
Million Book Project
The Million Book Project (or the Universal Library) was a book digitization project led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries from 2007–2008. Working with government and research partners in India ( D ...
, provides free access to many books in English and Indian languages. The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language
optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...
(OCR) software. The publications are mainly in
PDF or
QuickTime format.
Because of copyright laws, the texts are all out of copyright and therefore not sources for current information, but rather useful for history and background.
, DLI had scanned 550,603 titles.
Representative titles include:
* ''Ancient India'', McCrindle J. W.. 1885.
* ''Ancient Indian Polity'', Aiyangar K. V. Rangaswami. 1935.
* ''History of the Parsis Vol-I'',
Karaka Dosabhai Framji. 1884.
* ''A Treatise on Kala-Azar'', Brahmachari Upendranath. 1928.
* "Aligarh kee taleemi tehreek", Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain, 1931
* "Makateeb-e-Sanai" by Professor Nazir Ahmed, 1962
Books in Urdu and Persian are also available. Examples include " Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain
and Makateeb-e-Sanai by Professor Nazir Ahmad
DLI website has not been operational for maintenance reasons from 2017. The contents are available from archive.org
See also
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Traditional Knowledge Digital Library
The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) is an Indian digital knowledge repository of the traditional knowledge, especially about medicinal plants and formulations used in Indian systems of medicine.
History
Set up in 2001, as a colla ...
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Panjab Digital Library
The Panjab Digital Library is a voluntary organization digitizing and preserving the cultural heritage of Panjab since 2003. With over 50 million digitized pages, it is the biggest resource of digital material on Panjab. There are many his ...
Partners in Digital Library of India
References
External links
Digital Library of India, Govt. of India websiteDigital Library of India, BangaloreNew website of Digital Library of India with downloadable PDFs
Historiography of India
Libraries in Bangalore
Indian digital libraries
Indian Institute of Science
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