NHM Converter – Tamil font encoding converter

May 13, 2008

in tamil computing

NHM Converter is a free-of-cost Tamil font encoding converter tool from the makers of NHM writer

Now, NHM Converter is available online too. Since this is browser dependent, now we have a converter for Linux, Mac operating systems too. Earlier, Suratha’s Pongu Tamil was the only available tool.

The downloadble version is available for Windows and will be soon made available for Linux too.  

Some of the features of NHM converter are:

    1. Embedded fonts. You don’t need to install any fonts.
    2. Speed of the conversion as conversion takes place at client side. We used NHM converter for the Tamil Wiktionary Automation project and it helped us convert font encoding of large MB files with ease.
    3. Auto detect encoding
    4. Extendability 
    5. Sometimes it will be helpful, if you want to type in a 8 -bit encoding without any font. (another usage of font embedding feature)

 

Related posts

{ 2 trackbacks }

Tamil software websites
February 3, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Tamil font converters
February 27, 2009 at 12:25 am

{ 20 comments… read them below or add one }

mayooresan June 7, 2008 at 9:43 am

Ravi now using NHM writer..
wow… it’s way too cool..! handy and effective..

Reply

N.Balraj July 30, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Dear sir,

I am having ABBYY software to conver the English JPEG or PDF file into DATA files.

I need a software for TAMIL JPEG or TAMIL PDF file into DATA file.

Kindly mail me.

My Address is
1/1 Gopal Samy Street,
Shevapet, Salem 636 002.
Cell: 978978 34 36, 978 978 34 37

Reply

ravi August 5, 2008 at 12:19 am

sorry, balraj. i couldn’t find a software for your need yet.

Reply

saravanan.g December 26, 2008 at 8:27 pm

how to download the nhm converter

Reply

ravi December 27, 2008 at 4:03 am
Geetha May 6, 2009 at 9:09 am

Hi RAVI

I need to convert one microsoft word document into Tamil…

I need the software.

Regards
Geetha

Reply

ravi May 6, 2009 at 9:18 am

Hi geetha,

try installing nhm converter from

http://software.nhm.in/Products/NHMConverter/tabid/60/Default.aspx

or use the online converter from

http://software.nhm.in/Services/NHMConverter/tabid/56/Default.aspx

These should help you convert your word file

Reply

Rethnaraj May 6, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Dear Mr.Ravi,

I need help on using tamil font in wordpress. How we can make posts, categories and links in tamil in wordpress?

I hope you will help me sir.

Thanks.

Reply

ravi May 6, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Hi Mr. Rethnaraj

There is nothing special you should do to type in Tamil in WordPress. Use tools like NHM writer and you can type in anywhere in Tamil offline / Online

you can download nhm writer from

http://software.nhm.in/Products/NHMWriter/tabid/55/Default.aspx

Reply

Rethnaraj May 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm

thanks sir,

another thing. how to create categories in tamil and in post comments place, how to change ‘leave a reply’ in tamil?

like in Tamil Hindu.com

how they change everything to tamil?

Reply

ravi May 6, 2009 at 5:53 pm

If you have a blog like http://xyz.wordpress.com hosted at wordpress.com then go to /wp-admin/options-general.php and choose the blog language as Tamil. You can expect many of the blog interface to show in Tamil. But not guaranteed 100%.

If you are hosting the site by your own like TamilHindu.com, then you need to edit the theme files manually. the theme files are located at /wp-content/themes/

Reply

bhuvanadevi May 26, 2009 at 4:40 pm

res sir
how to download convert
software please
mail to me

Reply

ravi May 27, 2009 at 9:32 am

bhuvanadevi, the nhm download site has some problems now. Will give you the link once it is ok.

Reply

ravi May 30, 2009 at 7:04 pm

bhuvanadevi, please try downloading from http://software.nhm.in/writer.html

Reply

Kuma June 15, 2009 at 11:12 am

Hello sir i need a help.. i have a some text in Avvipro but i wont that in TsCu Inaimathi.. i got use try that Avvaipro converter also but it dosn’t work, do u have a any idea to convert this thing.
i need a reply as soon as.

thank you
by
kuma

Reply

bala October 11, 2009 at 11:07 am

hai i have converted pdf to doc but the document can not be seen properly actually in adobe properties i have found that the fonts used where
tamil-029(embedded subset)
tamil-083(embedded subset)

Reply

K October 20, 2009 at 8:46 pm

Hello,

I am a mac user. I’ve downloaded the converter, but I don’t know how to use it. What program do I use to open it? Please post step by step instructions.

Thanks,
K

Reply

E. Annamalai January 9, 2010 at 5:54 am

The NHM converter is really nice to use, but while converting Bamini to unicode I find that several characters are not translated correctly. Are you aware of how I can get around that?

Thanks,
Annamalai

Reply

Rathan January 12, 2010 at 6:17 pm

Hi Ravi!
I couldn’t read Tamil font in web sites. It appears as question mark. Please solve this problem.

Thanks with
Rathan

Reply

ravi February 10, 2010 at 12:58 am

Hi rathan, can I know some websites you have problem with? Please let me know the operating system, browser you use too. In general you should be able to Unicode sites like Tamil Wikipedia ( http://ta.wikipedia.org ) without problem. Try installing Firefox 3.5+ and NHM writer. It should enable Tamil support.

Reply

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: