Guides for Burmese text work
Practical, step-by-step articles on getting Burmese text out of documents, written from what LEXO actually does.
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How to convert a scanned Burmese PDF to Unicode text
Turn a scanned Myanmar PDF into clean, editable Unicode text with free Google Docs OCR: cropping, spreads, proofreading, and export.
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Win Innwa PDF to Unicode: why legacy Burmese fonts extract as gibberish
Win Innwa or Win Myanmar PDFs return English letters when copied. Why it happens, how to spot it, and two ways to get real Myanmar Unicode.
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Extract text from a Burmese PDF: text layer or OCR?
How to tell whether a Myanmar PDF is digital or scanned, and the fastest way to extract Burmese text from each, including mixed documents.
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Digitizing a Burmese archive: a practical workflow for researchers
A repeatable process for digitizing scanned Burmese books and periodicals into searchable Unicode text, from scanning to batch OCR and proofreading.
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Building a Burmese text dataset from scanned PDFs with JSONL
Turn scanned Myanmar documents into a page-level JSONL corpus for NLP and LLM work: batch OCR, Unicode normalization, filtering, and deduplication.