Digital Locker Project

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

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

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

(M) 0 - 98,67,55,08,08

www.hemenparekh.in