Printing Transliterated

Indian Language Documents

itrans

version 5.30

©1991-2001 Avinash Chopde

Home page: http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/

This software is a pre-processor, it converts input representing Indic Text to the actual Indian Language Script, for printout or for display on Web pages. The input is uses English letters, so it can be created using any simple text editor.

This document describes the use of the program itrans, which may be used to generate Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), or Romanized Sanskrit output from input in an english transliterated form.

Many examples of ITRANS use are available on the web, archives for different purposes are available. One such project is a collection of Hindi Film Song Lyrics; another project is a collection of Sanskrit documents. There are also tools on the Web that make it much easier to use ITRANS - you can use ITRANS over e-mail, or use your WWW Browser to type ITRANS text, etc. Links to many such sites are available through the ITRANS home page at and you can also use WWW search tools (use the keywords ITRANS and indian) to search the Web.