AI-Driven Kannada Document Summarization Using Optical Character Recognition and Natural Language Processing: A Web-Based Implementation Framework
TL;DR
The developed application is an example of the effective use of Artificial Intelligence in processing documents in regional languages and lays the groundwork for creating automated systems for document management.
Abstract
The fast expansion of digital data has resulted in high demand for smart systems which can quickly obtain compact and meaningful data from lengthy documents. Even though automation in text summarization has seen significant developments in well-resourced languages, automated summarization of Kannada is still rare due to the intricacies of the script of the language, poor computational power, and massive information available in printed and scanned form. A web-based framework for automated summarization of Kannada documents is introduced in this paper, utilizing AI by developing a processing platform that integrates OCR and NLP. This technique works not only with originally typed text in Kannada but also with scanned documents. Scanned documents are converted to editable Unicode by using Tesseract OCR engine before performing the language-specific NLP tasks that include normalization, tokenization, sentence splitting, stopword removal, and extraction of summaries. Using technologies such as Python, Flask, OpenCV, Tesseract OCR, and relational database management, the developed application can ensure secure authentication of users, management of documents, and visualization of summaries using an interactive web interface. The successful tests indicate that OCR and NLP technologies have been integrated into the process of performing various tasks related to the examination of documents written in the Kannada language. The modular architecture of the project enables applying transformer-based summaries, document processing in many languages, OCR of handwritten texts written in the Kannada language, and various technologies for running applications in the cloud in the future. Thus, the developed application is an example of the effective use of Artificial Intelligence in processing documents in regional languages and lays the groundwork for creating automated systems for document management.