Quillpad is an indic language input technology that revolutionized the Indian language typing scene. It is one of the most popular Indic input technologies with more than a billion words typed on the website alone.

Quillpad pioneered the successful use of machine learning for building a predictive language input technology. Quillpad has been rated as the best by many organisations that have embraced Quillpad.

1.0.1

There are several archive files in the repository which have to be extracted, these include trained transliteration models and additional text files necessary for the Quillpad Server

• CherryPy-3.2.2.tar.gz
• EnglishPronouncingTrees.tar.bz2
• IndianPronouncingTrees.tar.bz2
• additional_text_files.zip
• bengali.tar.bz2
• gujarati.tar.bz2
• hindi.tar.bz2
• kannada.tar.bz2
• malayalam.tar.bz2
• marathi.tar.bz2
• nepali.tar.bz2
• punjabi.tar.bz2
• tamil.tar.bz2
• telugu.tar.bz2
• unique_word_files.zip

Kindly extract all of these archives into the repository folder itself.

Quillpad Server requires Python 2.7 to run.

Before we can compile, we need to install few other things

$ sudo apt-get install python-dev
$ sudo apt-get install -y python-pyrex
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ pip install CherryPy

First, we need to compile the Quillpad Model loader that will be used to load the trained transliteration models

$ cd Python\ Cart/python
$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
$ cp QuillCCart.so ../../
$ cd ../../

Before we can run the server we need to extract some files

$ unzip unique_word_files.zip additional_text_files.zip
$ tar -xf bengali.tar.bz2 EnglishPronouncingTrees.tar.bz2 gujarati.tar.bz2 hindi.tar.bz2 IndianPronouncingTrees.tar.bz2 kannada.tar.bz2 malayalam.tar.bz2 marathi.tar.bz2 nepali.tar.bz2 punjabi.tar.bz2 tamil.tar.bz2 telugu.tar.bz2

Now, the Quillpad Server is ready to run

$ python startquill_cherry.py

• Quillpad runs on port number 8090 (Additional configuration parameters are in quill_cherry8088.conf)

• processWordJSON and processWord are the API endpoints over which the transliteration server can be accessed.

Example:

  * localhost:8090/processWordJSON?inString=hello&lang=hindi
  * localhost:8090/processWordJSON?inString=hello&lang=kannada

Additional Quillpad Documentation coming soon. Thanks for your patience.