Try on between NIPTICT OCR and KhmerOCR.org

I tested the tool, I make with iText for Khmer render on PDF in my post of http://ask.osify.com/qa/613 which is using Khmer OS Battambang to generate the PDF.

I tested on two URLs:

1. http://KhmerOCR.org by providing the image file
2. http://rnd.niptict.edu.kh/ocr/ by uploading the PDF file

Here is the result so far

Online Khmer Legacy Font to Unicode Converter

Online tool? Wow, you might interesting, we need this kind of such tools available for our Khmer people.

Here you can convert your legacy text (in Limon or ABC font) to Khmer Unicode, just right away.
Of course, currently, we're almost no more articles in legacy fonts since people are using Khmer Unicode already. But it might be sometimes, we need. Here is the tool for online converter in plain text from legacy font to Khmer Unicode.

KhmerOCR Development from ITC

There are few stakeholders are doing KhmerOCR, among them, researchers and students from ITC (Institute of Technology of Cambodia) are also doing it as well.

Here is one of a public presentation during Barcamp event about KhmerOCR introduced by ITC students/researchers.

Khmer OCR from Bill Jeer

There are other researchers from RUPP as well.

Displaying Khmer - Development Document

By Javier Solar, 2004

The purpose of this document is to help developers who do not know the Khmer script to understand what is involved in displaying Khmer Unicode correctly.

Khmer Unicode Development - Letter to Mr. Maurice Bauhahn in 1996

According to Danh Hong's post, National Higher Education Task Force in 1996 had sent a letter to Mr. Maurice Bauhahn in order to register/integrate the Khmer language into computer system.

According to the Unicode.org website, Mr. Maurice Bauhahn has been called as one of the expert on Khmer Unicode:

Maurice Bauhahn is an expert on one of the most complex languages of Unicode 3.0 (Khmer), worked in Southeast Asia for 24 years, and holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science. [Unicode.org]

So thanks to ministers who have involved on Khmer Unicode development.

Read the full letter here.