Converting Ambili Font based ASCII Encoded Malayalam Documents to Unicode

We recently had to convert quite a lot of Ambili Font based ASCII Encoded pdf documents as part as a project we were working on. With proper guidance from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, more precisely from Santhosh Thottingal we were able to use the Payyans Unicode Converter for Malayalam for this. As is our practice, we made sure that our efforts would also benefit the community by creating the font map for Ambili font and we are releasing it under GPL v3.

You can download Ambili Font map for Payyans. We have also submitted this to the payyans team at SMC and this should very likely become part of Payyans. So you might be better off to get the latest version directly from the Payyans download location.

If you have ASCII encoded Malayalam documents which you would like to convert to Unicode, we would be happy to assist you with the process. Get in touch with us using the Contact form for assistance regarding this.

If you are interested in contributing towards the Swathantra Malayalam Computing Initiative, do get in touch with the SMC team through the SMC website or the SMC mailing list