Digital
Locker Project
Dear Shri Ravishankar Prasadji :
Business Standard ( 23 May 2015 ) writes about an
initiative of Department of Electronics and Information Technology , to create
" Digital Lockers "for Indian
Citizens , where they can store their important documents on internet
https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/govt-s-digitisation-drive-may-be-crowd-sourced-citizens-roped-in-115052300059_1.html
https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/govt-s-digitisation-drive-may-be-crowd-sourced-citizens-roped-in-115052300059_1.html
This crowd-sourcing project is supposed to work as
follows :
* Citizens scan their documents on a
scanner and then upload those
images in personal Digital
Locker ( User ID / Secure Password ? )
* Special S/W will break-up each document
image into hundreds of mini
images ( of a few characters
each )
* Each mini-image will be SMSed to 2
persons ( having Smart phones ? ),
who will type out the characters
in TEXT ( WORD format ? )
* These typed TEXTs will get uploaded into
document-owner's Digital
Locker
* If both these " typed texts "
match perfectly ( like CAPTCHA ), it will
replace that mini-image in the
document
Apparently , the idea is to crowd-source the Smart Phones / human resources of millions of
Indian Citizens - much like the 30 year old SETI project
But before taking a final decision to go ahead , I feel
following questions need to be answered :
* How much will it cost to develop / deploy the
required software ?
* Let us assume that there are only 10 documents per citizen ( on an
average ) , taking the total to 12.5 BILLION documents to be scanned
If each document-image has to be
broken-up ( again , on an average ),
into just 10 mini-images , that
would mean 125 BILLION mini-images !
* Now , if each mini-image has to be sent to 2
smart-phones , that
would require , 250 BILLION smart phones !
Now , of course , there are no more
than 250 million smart phones
That would require Govt to send to
each smart phone owner , 1,000
mini-images !
And let us assume that each
mini-image contains , just 10 characters,
( most likely , it will contain 50
characters )
That would require each smart phone
owner to type out 10,000
characters !
* Why would ordinary Indian smart phone owner
take time and trouble to
type out 10,000 CAPTCHA-like
characters ?
* How will you motivate them ? By
paying ? How much ? Total cost ?
* How many years will it take to implement entire
project ?
* Do our 1.25 Billion ( document-owning )
citizens have easy access to
scanners (
to scan their own documents ) and to broadband ( to upload
into personal Digital Locker )
?
* On the other hand , is it not far easier for
these citizens to use the built-in camera of their
smart phones to take photos (
essentially , " images " ) of their documents and directly
upload to their Digital
Lockers ? After all , with built-in mega-pixel camera , every smart
phone has become a "
Personal Scanner " !
* Why not take help from Global Software
Companies to automatically
convert those scanned document
images into WORD texts , using OCR
technology ?
Latest OCR soft ware have
better than 95 % accuracy
Then let the document-owner
access OCRed documents in his personal
Digital Locker and EDIT the
documents thru his mobile / PC / Tablet ?
Let the onus for accuracy be with
the document owner
I am sure , you are aware of
the GOOGLE-BOOK project , under which ,
Google has scanned and OCRed
and converted to text , billions of pages !
* Or , why not get Indian Software Giants
to develop a Mobile App ( to
be called , DigiDoc ? ) to enable a document-owner to simply
read
out aloud , each of his
document , into the smart phone , to convert it
into a TEXT , using "
Speech-to-Text " technology ?
Let the document be in any official Indian
Language
And ask the Software Company to make
the " Speech-to-Text " software ,
" Self Learning " as millions of
document owners " correct " online thru
" Editing " , all those
words , mis-spelled by the software !
I believe , the " Bye-Product
" of this " Self Learning " software could well
re-define concepts such as
> E Governance > National Integration !
The document owner will speak
out , his :
> Digital
Locker Number
> Aadhar Card Number
> User ID
> Password
> Document Name
> Meta-tags /
Keywords
When Mobile App acknowledges these details
and connects him with his Digital Locker , he will be prompted to " read
out " his document
Later on , he will be enabled to " View " his
document online and EDIT it , wherever " Speech-to-Text " software
has made any mistakes
Dear Ravishankarji ,
I urge you to evaluate the alternatives suggested by me
, before taking a final decision
with regards,
hemen parekh
Mumbai
(M) 0 - 98,67,55,08,08
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