Bhashamoli

Tamil and Sinhala font converter

Paste தமிழ் or සිංහල text and get it back in Bamini, STMZH or FM Abhaya, or the other way round. You can also copy text out of a photo or screenshot. It's free and there's nothing to sign up for.

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Unicode to Bamini

For Tamil text going to a printer or into an old design file. Also converts Bamini back to Unicode.

අ

Unicode to FM Abhaya

For Sinhala text that has to go into FM Abhaya or FM Malithi. Also converts FM back to Unicode.

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Unicode to STMZH

For Tamil text going into the STMZH fonts. Also converts STMZH back to Unicode.

Image to text

Copy the text out of a photo, scan or screenshot. Works with Sinhala, Tamil and English.

Back to home

If the Bamini or FM box shows English letters, that's normal. You just don't have that font on this computer. Paste it into Word, Photoshop or Illustrator, set the font, and it will show up properly.

Back to home

Image to text

Upload a photo, scan or screenshot and copy the text out of it. Works with Sinhala, Tamil and English.

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You can also drag one in, or paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V

Text

Read through the result before you use it, because it can get a few letters wrong, mostly with blurry or very small text. The first time you use it, it takes a little longer to start.

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5 November 2026

Unicode or Bamini: which one do you need?

Somebody sends you a Word file, you open it, and instead of Tamil you see something like jkpo;. Nothing is broken. The file was typed in Bamini and your computer doesn't have the Bamini font.

Bamini

Bamini is an old way of typing Tamil. The file actually holds plain English keyboard letters, and the Bamini font draws them as Tamil. So jkpo; shows up as தமிழ், but only if the font is installed. A lot of printers and older Word, Photoshop and Illustrator files still use it.

Unicode

Unicode is what phones, Facebook, WhatsApp, Gmail and websites use. The Tamil letters are stored as real Tamil, so they show up properly everywhere and you can search them.

So which one?

You can switch between the two with the Bamini converter.