[Anubad] Introduction - Aniket Handa

[Aniket Handa]

Hello there,

My name is Aniket Handa, currently enrolled in Jaypee Institute of
Information Technology, Noida, INDIA. My interests range from Computer
Vision, Computer Graphics to developing Android Apps. I am a believer of
FOSS and have also been a part of few projects. I truly admire Ankurs'
goals of promoting Bengali language.

Now, as of GSoC I was going through the Ideas page, and was instantly
interested in some projects mentored by Mr. Sankarshan namely:


   - New Keyboard specific to input for mobile devices.
   - Improve the accuracy of OCR tools for bengali language to 98%
   - Improving information retrieval methods for OCR data sets consisting
   of Indic scripts.

My question of concern is: Will *not* knowing the bengali language hinder
in my project endeavor?
What I suppose is some knowledge is necessary in order to present a good
keyboard layout in case of first project Idea. And in case of OCR it
greatly depends upon the technique being used ( As one might think of
improving the OCR specific to the language, or upon some global or local
matching).

Looking forward for contributing.

Regards,
Aniket Handa