Useful Tools for Santali Content Creators

Last updated : 8th Aug 2022

Here are some lists of tools which may be used by Santali content creators for creating any digital content. Some tools are open-source, so you can also modify them according to your needs. You can also share your tools below in the comments, if they're not in the following list:

1. OFDN Foundation - Converts English alphabets to Ol Chiki script. Very useful when you don't have Ol Chiki keyboard. 
2. gimagereader - You have Image or documents in Santali (Ol Chiki) language then you can use gimagereader to convert them digitally in PC/Laptops. It is best  Follow this Tutorial to learn more.  
3. OFDN Foundation - Converts English alphabets to Ol Chiki script. Very useful when you don't have Ol Chiki keyboard.
4. Textfairy - An Android application which extracts Santali (Ol Chiki) Chapa text from Images.
5.  Paragraph to word ᱼ This tool convert Paragraph to a list of words and also counts their frequency
6.  Paragraph to word 2 - It is a Simple ONLiNE WORDLiST GENERATOR tool which convert Paragraph to a list of words and also counts their frequency. 
7. list to html ᱼ list to html tool helps generate html li tags using simple plane list. 
8. Prefix and Suffix - Prefix and Suffix add any given prefix or suffix to any batch of keywords. 
9. Word Count free - Word Count free counts number of words. Just paste some paragraph you will get the count.
10.  Word Frequency calculator - Word Frequency calculator.
11. ezcalc.me - Ezcalc is a mixture of various tools mentioned from 5 to 10. You can play with this tool and try. 

Input Tools and Layout

Input Tools

1. Gyana Input - This Online Typing Tool uses Inscript2, Sarjom Baha and Inscript Dev keyboard layouts (given below). You may switch between any one of them - http://gyan111.github.io/santali/ 
   
2. MediaWiki Santali Input Tools - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods (Universal) 
3. Santali Input lang - This online tool solves the problem of people who used to type in Santali (Ol Chiki) using non-Unicoded fonts. It caused confusion, and converting to uniode format was extremely difficult. This tool converts Non-Unicoded Santali (Ol Chiki) typed characters (Using WeSanthals fonts) to Unicoded ones. -https://languagetools-153419.appspot.com/sat/convertUI/

Layout

1. WeSanthals layout - https://wesanthals.tripod.com/id24.html
   
2. Sajom baha layouts - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/sat-Sarjom_baha (similar to WeSanthals layout)
3. Inscript2 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/sat-InScript2
4.  Pramukh layout ol chiki (https://oakfields.in/wp/wp-content/plugins/pramukhime-indic/pramukhime/img/pramukhindic-santali.png)
5.  Pramukh Santali devnagri https://www.aswamedham.com/ckeditor/plugins/pramukhime/help/pramukhindic-santali.htm
6. Technology Dev for Indian Languages (Santali-OlChiki Inscript Keyboard Layouts ) - https://ildc.in/Inscript-layout.html - https://ildc.in/images/Enhanced-Inscript/SANTHALI-%20OL%20Chiki-Enhanced%20Inscript%20keyboad.jpg 
7. Technology Dev for Indian Languages (Santali Devnagri Inscript Keyboard Layouts) - https://ildc.in/images/Enhanced-Inscript/SANTHALI-Enhanced%20Inscript%20keyboard.jpg 
   
8. Microsoft - Ol Chiki Layout ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kbdolch) Microsoft introduced Ol Chiki layout from Win 8.1 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/windows-keyboard-layouts)
9. Keyboard Layout Info - http://kbdlayout.info/KBDOLCH/ (This data come from Windows 10.0.22000.1, which contains 208 keyboard drivers and supports 208 keyboard layouts. Pick the one you are interested in:)
10. CLDR - https://unicode-org.github.io/cldr-staging/charts/37/keyboards/layouts/sat.html 
11. Keyman - https://help.keyman.com/keyboard/basic_kbdolch/1.0/basic_kbdolch 
12. unicode table - https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/ol-chiki/
    

Also see

1. List of Santali Websites | Must Visit.