English transcription of sanskrit characters using predefined templates

Most of the languages used in the world today for communication have evolved through spoken form first, and then into written form. There is a great repository of scientific as well as spiritual knowledge present in the form of Sanskrit literature, which could be very much useful in major fields of Computer Science. However, Sanskrit literature is found written in advanced script known as Devanagari, which makes use of both phonetics and special diacritical marks. In this paper, we emphasize on applying image processing practices to the input image contacting printed Sanskrit characters, in order to recognize the basic blocks of Sanskrit language. The proposed work deals with transcription of Sanskrit characters written in Devanagari script into English script using user-defined templates for each character and mapping a character from an image input to its appropriate transcript form.