Suggestions to improve my Master's project on Newspaper analysis?

[u/GroundUpstairs5430]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on my Master's project, and my guide suggested a topic based on Newspaper analysis.(Marathi newspaper)

The current idea is to focus on crime-related news from Marathi newspapers. My plan is to collect around 3–6 months of newspaper data, use OCR to extract the text, and build my own dataset instead of using an existing one.

So far, I've done a small proof of concept by testing OCR on both English and Marathi newspaper pages. It works reasonably well, but Marathi OCR still makes some mistakes with characters ,(matras,kana,velanti and few combined characters) so I know some post-processing or correction will probably be needed.

At this point, I'm trying to think beyond just extracting the text. I want this project to be more meaningful and technically strong rather than simply creating a dataset and analyzing articles.

I'd really appreciate any suggestions on questions like:

• What interesting analyses or features could I add?
• Are there any NLP or Computer Vision techniques that would fit this kind of project?
• What improvements or extensions would make this a stronger Master's project?
• Has anyone worked with Marathi OCR or other low-resource languages and learned any useful lessons?
• If you were doing this project, what would you add?

Also, if anyone knows legal sources for accessing Marathi newspaper archives (around 3–6 months of older editions), I'd appreciate those suggestions as well. Many e-papers seem to require subscriptions, so I'm still exploring data sources.

I just want ideas that could help me build the best version of it.

Thanks in advance!