Sponsored Research Projects
| Name of Project | Development of a Bangla Optical Character Recognizer (OCR) |
| Duration | January/2014 – August/2014 ( 8 months) |
| Name of Client | Access to Information (A2i) program of Prime Minister’s Office |
| Primary Investigator | Prof. Dr. Hasan Sarwar |
| Job Responsibilities | A workable prototype of Optical Character Recognition software, abbreviated as OCR, will be developed that can convert images of Bangla texts into editable documents.The output document of an OCR can then be edited by any editor software.Any person who requires Bengali document processing system will be benefitted by this software. |
| Revenue | 23 lakhs Taka |
| Name of Project | ব্রেইলশিখিবইপড়ি(Learn Braille Read Books) |
| Duration | April 2015 to December 2016 (8 Months) |
| Name of Client | Access to Information (A2i) program of Prime Minister’s Office |
| Primary Investigators | Md. Arif Reza Anwary, Prof. Hasan Sarwar, Dept of CSE, UIU, Prof. Fayyaz Khan, Dept of EEE, UIU |
| Job Responsibilities | Reading ability especially for blind and deaf children has long been acknowledged to be a critical factor in the educational progress. Learning of alphabet is a complex task regardless of the medium through which the skill is acquired. A low cost refreshable digital Braille display will be developed to read Bangla and English daisy Braille books including national text book from class 1 to 10. |
| Revenue | 24 lakhs Taka |
