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Quick index
1. Introduction:How Open Standard (like UNICODE) is more democratic than proprietory standard.
2. Usage statistics report for voterlist search engine put up by CEO Maharashtra
(with sample searches and typical failures)
3. Voterlist in Press (News item: Times of India on 23th September 2004)
4. Features of voterlist search engine (Upadated on 30th August)
5. snapshots showing search capabilities of search application (Updated on 9th August)
6. Technical Paper : Voterlist Search Engine using similar sounding word algorithm (SouIndics) for indian languages.
(By K. Sreepathi Pai)
7. Source Code of VL2-voterlist Search Engine (Ver. 0.5)
8. Search enabled voter registration Form No.6
9. Sample of Form No.7 (Registration form for seeking deletion of name in electoral roll: Not activated)
10. Sample of Form No.8 (Registration form for correction to particular entered in electoral roll: Not activated)
11. Examples of Phonetic English spelling in
* Shusha font (use shift button to download)
* Itrans standard
12. Common errors and tips for the users of ITRANS on the web
13. Comparative Chart Sumarized feature's of voterlist search module put by CEO of various state in India
14. Announcement: Software for this featuring powerful similar word search now has been uploaded on the web but for restricted access.
15. List of names with their variations and similar sounding words
16. Search module for Assembly Constituency-wise search in voterlist(Updated on 17th June). Now enabled with both Marathi or English Input and Output also. Click on the images to go to the search page.
Following are the links to snapshots showing various operations (like search,transliteration from one script to another etc.) on files provided by CEO , Maharashtra in DBF format and converted to Unicode text files by us.
* Devanagari version of sample voterlist.
* Sample file converted from Devanagari to Gujarati.
* Sample file converted from Devanagari to Bengali.
* Sample file converted from Devanagari to Kannada.
We have also converted several voter lists published on Maharashtra CEO website(http://ceo.maharashtra.gov.in) which were originally in PDF format, to plain text files in Unicode. This makes the files searchable.
* Draft comparison of Unicode compatibility of various platforms (as on 26 May, 2004)
* Snapshots showing search capabilities of converted files in Unicode
* Sample file converted from Devanagiri to gujarati
* Snapshots of search on Dharavi constituency full data (given to us in dbf format)
Result of rudimentary query
Note: The data used above case was intentionally changed to hide the identity.)