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Digital Library of India (DLI) is a digital collection of freely accessible rare books collected from various libraries in India. DLI project started with the vision to archive all the significant literary, artistic and scientific works of mankind and to preserve digitally and make them available freely for every one over Internet for education, study, appreciation and for future generations.

The Digital Library of India (DLI) is hosted on behalf of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India on non-commercial basis and for the public good. The books hosted at Digital Library of India (DLI) website have been checked to be out of copyright on the best effort basis. I case any of the books which are within copyright are found and are informed to us, they would be removed immediately. Please write to us at feedback.dli@gmail.com for any copyright violation.

Digital Library of India has currently 38,280 books with 16,975,499 pages (16.98M approx.) in Portable Document Format (PDF). We will appreciate you if you can send your feedback to improve the website to us at feedback.dli@gmail.com

One of the goals of the Digital Library of India is to provide support for full text indexing and searching based on OCR (optical character recognition) technologies available. The availability of online search allows users to locate relevant information quickly and reliably thus enhancing student's success in their research endeavors. This 24x7 resource would also provide an excellent test bed for language processing research in areas such as machine translation, optical character recognition, summarization, speech and hand writing recognition, intelligent indexing, and information retrieval in Indian languages.