Digital Library of India
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Type of site | Education |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | |
| URL | dli |
| Current status | Inactive |
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, provides free access to many books in English and Indian languages.[1] The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language optical character recognition (OCR) software. The publications are mainly in PDF or QuickTime format.[2]
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.
As of 2016[update], 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[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Coordinating centers". Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2006.
- ^ Pratha, Lakshmi (2012). "Content development for digital library of India" (PDF). pdf.js. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
- ^ "Public library of India".
External links
[edit]- Digital Library of India, Govt. of India website (archived)
- Digital Library of India, Bangalore (archived)
- New website of Digital Library of India with downloadable PDFs (archived)
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