Unicode to APS Converter
Convert Unicode Hindi text to APS-DV-Prakash font encoding instantly. Free, private, no sign-up needed.
Unicode to APS DV Prakash converter tool
How to Convert Unicode to APS?
Follow the below four simple steps to convert Unicode to APS. .
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Paste your Unicode Hindi text
Copy any Hindi text from a website, WhatsApp, Google Docs, MS Word or any application that uses Unicode. Click the Paste button above or press Ctrl+V inside the input area. Works with Mangal, Nirmala UI, Kokila, Arial Unicode MS and any other Unicode Devanagari font.
Example input:नमस्ते भारत -
Click Convert to APS
Hit the blue Convert button. The engine maps each Unicode Devanagari character to its APS-DV-Prakash equivalent. It handles:
- Ikar (ि), moved before the consonant as required by APS encoding
- Reph (र्), repositioned after the syllable in APS format
- Conjuncts: क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ, श्र and all common stacked forms mapped to their APS multi-char codes
- Matras and anusvara, all vowel signs mapped correctly
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Copy the APS output
Click the Copy button. The output will look like random symbols in the browser, and this is correct. APS-DV-Prakash is a legacy encoding, so the characters only display as Hindi when the APS font is applied in a compatible application.
Do not panic if the output looks like gibberish. It is correctly encoded APS text. The next step will make it display as proper Hindi. -
Paste into your DTP software and apply APS font
Open MS Word, PageMaker, CorelDraw or your newspaper layout software. Create a text box, paste the output, select all the text and change the font to APS-DV-Prakash. The Hindi text will render correctly for print. You can also download as .DOC, which comes pre-formatted with APS font applied.
Frequently Asked Questions
APS-DV-Prakash is a legacy Hindi (Devanagari) font developed by Advanced Publishing Systems (APS). It was widely used across Indian newspaper and publishing DTP setups from the 1990s through the 2000s. Like Krutidev and Chanakya, it stores Hindi text as custom ASCII characters rather than Unicode. The font family includes:
- APS-DV-Prakash, the standard width Hindi variant
- APS-C-DV-Prakash, condensed version popular in newspaper column layouts
- APS-C-DV-Priyanka, companion font using the same encoding
All three variants use the same character encoding, so this converter produces output compatible with all of them.
This is expected behaviour. APS-DV-Prakash stores Hindi as custom ASCII codes. Without the APS font applied, those codes display as whatever your system's default font maps them to, which looks like random characters or symbols. The text is correctly converted. Simply paste it into Word or PageMaker and change the font to APS-DV-Prakash. The Hindi text will render properly immediately.
Yes. APS-DV-Prakash and APS-C-DV-Prakash use identical character encoding. The "C" (condensed) variant only differs in glyph width, but the actual character codes are the same. So the output from this converter is directly compatible with APS-C-DV-Prakash. Simply paste the output and apply whichever APS font variant your press uses.
No limit. The conversion runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript with no file upload. You can paste a single sentence or an entire article, and processing is instant regardless of length.
This tool converts Unicode → APS (for print workflows). The APS to Unicode converter does the reverse. It converts APS → Unicode (for digitizing old documents).
Completely. Everything runs as JavaScript inside your own browser. Nothing you type or paste is ever sent to our servers, stored or logged anywhere. Safe for unpublished press copy, editorial content and confidential documents. Closing the browser tab removes all trace of your text.