inditrans

A functional transliterator library for the most common Indic/Brahmic scripts.

• No dependencies and no server needed. Uses wasm for near native performance.
• Supports ITRANS toggle transliteration with ## and skipping XML tags
• Special handling for scripts like Tamil, Malayalam, Gurmukhi, etc. Tuned for reability.
• Supports vedic accents for vedic scriptures.

• Changelog

References:

• inditrans on Github
• inditrans for Flutter
• inditrans for nodejs

Supported scripts

• Indic/Brahmic scripts:
  • Assamese
  • Bengali
  • Burmese
  • Devanagari
  • Gujarati
  • Gurmukhi
  • Kannada
  • Khmer
  • Malayalam
  • Oriya
  • Sinhala
  • Tamil
  • Tamil-Extended
  • Telugu
  • Tibetan
  • Thai
• Latin/Roman scripts:
  • IAST (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration)
  • IPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet)
  • ISO 15919 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15919)
  • ITRANS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRANS)
  • ReadableLatin (easy to read in Latin alphabets with some customizations)
  • TITUS (https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/indexe.htm)

Installation

npm install @vm75/inditrans

Usage example

import * as inditrans from 'inditrans';

async function test() {
  // Init needs to complete before Inditrans could be used
  await indiTrans.init();

  result = inditrans.transliterate(
    "श्री॒ गु॒रु॒भ्यो नमः॒ । ह॒रिः॒ ओ३म् ॥",
    inditrans.Script.devanagari,
    inditrans.Script.tamil,
    inditrans.Option.IgnoreVedicAccents + inditrans.Option.TamilSuperscripted
  );
  ...
}