This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Indian Languages, ICISIL 2011, held in Patiala, India, in March 2011. The 63 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 126 paper submissions (full papers as well as poster papers) and 25 demo submissions. The papers address all current aspects on localization, e-governance, Web content accessibility, search engine and information retrieval systems, online and offline OCR, handwriting recognition, machine translation and transliteration, and text-to-speech and speech recognition - all with a particular focus on Indic scripts and languages.

"Development of font independent thesaurus for Hindi language" is a topic under NLP. NLP is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) language. In this work basic of Hindi character set and the concept of font independent has also been discussed. The main part is engaged with thesaurus. Thesaurus has been made for Hindi language that will provide the synonyms and antonyms of the word in a given text file. Synonym are those words that means the same as another word whereas Antonym means the word with oppositeness in meaning. Thesaurus is usually embedded in the application program such as document analysis system and text retrieval system. Thesaurus provides a way to organize knowledge or information for subsequent retrieval. It describe the various solutions of the problems that arises during the implementation of Hindi thesaurus.

Forms are information carriers and frequently used for collecting data from different sources for processing on computer. Forms may vary from paper based to online. Manual keying-in of data costs in terms of time and money. Reading of data from paper based forms requires converting the form data into digital format, which can be recognized and processed by computers. This can be done by feeding the forms to a system which recognizes the image of the form and converts it to fields consisting of set of characters. Various processes are applied on this digitised data to convert it into an editable form. Technological advances have made it possible to use automated systems for converting paper based form images to editable form. Form processing system has wide applications in census data collection, banking system, tax payments, postal systems, educational institutes, various service commissions etc., where huge volumes of forms are received for data processing and analyses. For fast processing of such information, a form processing system is needed.