Chandojñānam

Majority of the Sanskrit literature is in the form of poetry that adheres to the rules of Sanskrit prosody or Chandaḥśāstra, which is the study of Sanskrit meters, known as chandas. The purpose of chanda is primarily to add rhythm to the text so that it is easier to memorize. Additionally, it also helps in preserving the correctness to some extent. Chandojñānam is a web-based Sankrit prosodical meter identification and utilization system. In addition to the core functionality of identifying meters from Sanskrit text, it provides fuzzy (i.e., approximate and close) matches for text that does not correspond exactly to a known metrical pattern. This opens up the scope of a meter based correction of erroneous digital corpora. The system supports identification of meters from uploaded images by using optical character recognition (OCR) engines in the backend. It is also able to process entire text files at a time. The text can be processed in two modes, either by treating it as a list of individual lines, or as a collection of verses.