Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Users
  • Library users
    • Built output
    • Some known users
  • Libraries in other languages
• Contributors
  • Setup
  • Deployment
    • SBT:
    • Building a jar.
  • Technical choices
    • Scala

A collection of scala and java classes for some basic character level processing for the Sanskrit and other Indic (kannada, telugu, etc..) languages, contributed by the open source sanskrit-coders projects and friends. Some notable facilities:

• Transliterate text from one script or encoding scheme to another.

• Maven repository here .
• Last update : 2017-05-??

• Final jar files
  • out/*.jar [all modules in intellij project]
  • target/*.jar [includes sources and javadocs in separate jars. indic-transliteration module only]
• Classes
  • out/production/*/ [Modules other than indic-transliteration.]
  • target/ [sanskritnlp module output.]

• stardict-sanskrit and sister stardict-.* projects.

• For python: indic-transliteration pip .
• For Java / Scala: indic-transliteration maven.
• For JS:
  • sanscript .
  • salita - limited to a few Roman transliterations and devanAgarI.
• PHP: Dicrunch and its use by akSharamukhA .

• Use sbt command release to publish to maven repos.
• Use sbt command test and testOnly to run tests.
• You should be able to use it roughly immediately; and after many hours you should see at maven repo listings here.

• Simplest way is to set up a build artifact in intellij IDea.

• One can write much more concise code (1/4th to 1/3rd relative to Java and 3/4ths to 5/6ths relative to Python, according to this )
  • For example, the ease with which one can iterate in scala using higher order functions (the maps, filters and zips above) available with scala's excellent collections library.
• while not sacrificing the ability to use java libraries, and readability/ speed of java.
• It is increasing in popularity relative to competitors : scala vs clojure ( Google trends ), scala vs julia ( Google trends ).
• Here is a good series of blog posts which provide an introduction to Scala.