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      <td><b>Project Number</b></td>
      <td>NF/PG/2007/0001</td>
      <td><b>Grant Agency / Donors</b></td>
      <td>Noolaham Foundation</td>
      <td><b>Project Owner</b></td>
      <td>Kopinath Thillainathan </td>
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      <td><b>Project Mentor</b></td>
      <td>Kopinath Thillainathan</td>
      <td><b>Project Locations</b></td>
      <td>Colombo</td>
      <td><b>Project Period</b></td>
      <td>2007</td>
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      <td><b>Stakeholders</b></td>
      <td>Vettivel Jasikan, Rathina Iyer Pathmanaba Iyer, Thambiah Thevathas</td>
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The Text Digitization Project in Colombo 2007 was a digitization project which was initiated to convert physical books into machine readable formats. It was one of the first funded projects carried out by Noolaham Foundation. Prior such funded projects, most digitization tasks were done by volunteers and they did not progress quickly.  Some volunteers who were participating in the activities of Noolaham Foundation proposed that they would like to make monetary contributions and a project should be coordinated to digitize books, as they would not find time, expertise and resources to type the books manually. Thus the funded projects were started.

A total of 44 books were digitized through this project and made available online through Noolaham Foundation’s Digital Library www.noolaham.org. This project was a successful initiative and received special appreciation from Sri Lankan Tamil writers and publishers.

* [http://www.noolahamfoundation.org/documents/projectreports/03%20Text%20Digitization%20Project%20in%20Colombo%202007%20Final%20Report.pdf Full Report]