2005 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 15-18
We have taken the picture images of all the Buddhist canons in the possession of Kongoji, using digital cameras. Although those images are so vivid and easy to view, it is quite hard to find some character or phrase from that file. In addition, it is not effective or practical to manage tens of thousands of the images only by means of their file names. For smoothing these difficulties away, we are constructing a database system together with a prototype viewer which meets viewability and searchability. The searchability is based on the existing text files of the canons, since most canons in Kongoji correspond to those of Taisho Tripitaka whose text files are available on the Internet. Therefore we attempts to recognize the character regions of the image files automatically, and to develop the interfaces which help one relate the location of the character region to the position of the character in the text file.
