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Varnam Input Tool (വർണ്ണം/वर्न्म)

An easy input method to type Indian languages on desktop, web and mobile

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“Varnam” is an open source, cross platform transliterator for Indian languages. It's an easy way to type Indian languages on desktop. It's been 7 years since its inception, but has so many areas where it can be improved and used well. Personally, we've been using the software to type Malayalam on GNU/Linux desktop but it can be put to wider reach. The software is basically unmaintained now. Our goal is to revamp it. It's a full FOSS replacement to Google's Input Tools, Microsoft's Bhaasha Input Tool.

With this hackathon, we aim to :

  • Make a web editor for Varnam

  • Easy installation & usage of Varnam on Linux distros

  • Improved support for more languages

  • A local frontend GUI for managing Varnam, import new corpus, export, adding words etc.

  • Varnam Editor for Mac OSX & Windows (Windows is a high priority)

https://www.varnamproject.com/

On Flatpak : https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.varnamproject.Varnam

https://subinsb.com/varnam

Join us on Telegram : https://t.me/varnamproject

Track our project : https://github.com/users/subins2000/projects/2

Subin Siby
Pranav Shridhar
Kiran Johns
Athul Cyriac Ajay

Added Support for Running Natively

September 13, 2020

Finished the UI of the online editor

  • VueJS and Vuetify Varnam Editor Interface Varnam Editor Settings Interface
September 13, 2020

It's my first time really really working with C and the initial result turned out to be alright. I'm porting a Ruby CLI utility to C : https://github.com/varnamproject/libvarnam/issues/154

September 12, 2020

Follow progress here : https://github.com/users/subins2000/projects/2

September 12, 2020
  • Basic UI created in Vue
  • Basic API creation done
September 12, 2020

Project created by Subin Siby

September 6, 2020