# Govt. Stepped Back on 118A, Malayalam OCR, KDE Localization and More: SMC Monthly Report Nov 2020 **URL:** \ **Category:** Blogs\ **Created:** [February 27, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/govt-stepped-back-on-118a-malayalam-ocr-kde-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-report-nov-2020/494 "2021-02-27T05:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/user_avatar/community.smc.org.in/discobot/32/41_2.png) [@discobot](https://community.smc.org.in/u/discobot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 5:24am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/govt-stepped-back-on-118a-malayalam-ocr-kde-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-report-nov-2020/494/1 "2021-02-27T05:24:24Z")
[Santhosh Thottingal](http://blog.smc.org.in/author/santhosh/) optimized [OCR for Malayalam](https://thottingal.in/blog/2020/11/14/tesseract-orcr-web/) and [released for public use](https://ocr.smc.org.in). There were many attempts to build Malayalam OCR. [Akshara](https://sourceforge.net/projects/akshara/) OCR from SMC by [Praveen Areembrathodiyil](https://gitlab.com/pravi), [Nayana](http://www.ildc.in/Malayalam/mldownload.html) by CDAC, [Pottan OCR](https://github.com/harish2704/pottan-ocr) by Harish are few among them. * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-november-2020/](https://blog.smc.org.in/smc-monthly-report-november-2020/) ---
**Author:** ![V4vachan](https://community.smc.org.in/user_avatar/community.smc.org.in/v4vachan/32/139_2.png) [@V4vachan](https://community.smc.org.in/u/V4vachan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 6:03am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/govt-stepped-back-on-118a-malayalam-ocr-kde-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-report-nov-2020/494/2 "2021-02-27T06:03:19Z")
[https://kde.smc.org.in/projects](https://kde.smc.org.in/projects) Link not working ---
**Author:** ![Vivekkj](https://community.smc.org.in/user_avatar/community.smc.org.in/vivekkj/32/245_2.png) [@Vivekkj](https://community.smc.org.in/u/Vivekkj)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/govt-stepped-back-on-118a-malayalam-ocr-kde-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-report-nov-2020/494/3 "2021-02-27T11:44:16Z")
@joice current KDE translation website is [https://translate-portal.superxos.com/](https://translate-portal.superxos.com/) and new users need approval from @subins2000 to make suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![joice](https://community.smc.org.in/user_avatar/community.smc.org.in/joice/32/49_2.png) [@joice](https://community.smc.org.in/u/joice)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.smc.org.in/t/govt-stepped-back-on-118a-malayalam-ocr-kde-localization-and-more-smc-monthly-report-nov-2020/494/4 "2021-02-27T16:28:15Z")
KDE localization related discussions are meant to happen at [KDE - SMC Community](https://community.smc.org.in/c/l10n/kde/29)