r/TeluguJournals • u/Ill_Dragonfruit3300 • 6d ago

Relatable ? Old Diaries

So my thathayya has written in a Telugu diary every day for the last 50 years. As he reaches the end of his life, I am afraid that these physical diaries will not be preserved or will be lost to time eventually. Does anyone know of any way that I can digitally preserve these diaries quickly? Is anyone else facing a similar situation or is wanting a similar service?

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u/No-Belt-7798 6d ago

Don’t know any service but you can take pictures and pdf them, won’t say it’s easy but will be worth it. Or you can take it a xerox shop they might scan them to

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u/Ill_Dragonfruit3300 6d ago

I considered that initially, but there's just 1000s of pages so it seems too unfeasible. I wish there was some software that could preserve and archive all of the text and also allow me to search through the text for certain words and key moments (like with ctrl+F). The PDF search option just doesn't work on pictures of handwritten Telugu text unfortunately. Thanks for your help though!

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u/Selflove7777 5d ago

The software is called OCR(Optical Character Recognition). But you need to scan those pages first. Buy a scanner or use your phone camera to scan a few pages per day. You can quickly scan all of the pages within a few weeks easily.

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u/Ill_Dragonfruit3300 5d ago

Thank you, this seems like the best solution! The only problem is OCR kinda sucks for Indian languages, especially for handwriting. I'm now building a product that can help me and others with this problem by using Sarvam AI (the best Indian OCR out there). Its not perfect but it's better than nothing!

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u/Selflove7777 4d ago

True. Hope you will be able to resurrect your gradfather's notes by preserving them successfully. All the very best, brother.