/MILE-Transliterator

A browser plugin to Google Chrome, which instantly transliterates a website present in any Indic script to Kannada. This plugin exploits the Unicode block parallelism and also uses a rule-based approach to transliterate web pages to Kannada. This enables a polyglot user to read online documents in other Indic scripts through Kannada script. Currently, it supports transliteration from Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bangla, Gujarati, Odiya, Punjabi, Sanskrit and Hindi pages. The quality of transliteration was scored by 45 users on a scale of 1 to 5 and a mean opinion score of 4.6 has been achieved.

Primary LanguageJavaScriptApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

MILE-Transliterator

How to install MILE Transliterator on your Google Chrome?

  • Clone this repo on to your machine OR download the zip file and extract locally.
  • Open chrome://extensions/ in your Google Chrome.
  • Select Developer Mode at the top right corner.
  • Click on Load unpacked button at the top left corner.
  • Browse to the folder where you cloned this repo or extracted the zip file.
  • Select the folder corresponding to the target language/script in which you wish to see other language web pages.
  • The MILE Transliterator plugin is now installed on your Google Chrome

Installing MILE Transliterator locally

How to use MILE transliterator in Google Chrome?

  • Open Google Chrome and open the web-page of other language that you want to see in the script of your choice. Tamil web page
  • Right click on the page and select Transliterate to <target-script> Run MILE Transliterator
  • Your web page is reloaded and shown in the script of your choice! Tamil web page transliterated to Kannada script