A scientist at the U ov. of Washington developed a "arabic printed text" after digitizing handwritten scripts by expert Arabic calligraphers. This was done because of the poor quality arabic used in modern printed arabic books. I remember a sample from Diocles "On Burning Mirrors" which he put on the internet. Unfortunately his characters were kept private I believe although he also had developed a program which would write the script correctly accounting for accents, position in word, etc. He developed outline fonts which could be the basis for something new if they are available. He did give me a deck of cards for the numerals, which has faded into punch card history. ----- Original Message ----- From: "maitri venkat-ramani" <maitriv@yahoo.com> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 9:32 AM Subject: [gutvol-d] Arabic eTexts
Some of these books may be in the public domain and worth looking into. Anyone particularly interested in developing an Arabic language partnership with the project mentioned below?
Maitri
SOFTWARE FOR SCANNING ARABIC DOCUMENTS
Noting that "the whole Internet is skewed toward people who speak English," computer scientist Venu Govindaraju of the University of Buffalo says his research group is developing software to scan Arabic printed and handwritten documents. Without optical character recognition software developed for a particular language, Govindaraju fears that "all the classic texts in that language will disappear into oblivion." The project's Arabic software will take into account the fact that characters may take different forms depending on where within a word they appear, and that Arabic vowels are pronounced but often not written. (AP 27 Jan 2005)
<http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050127/D87SE8E80.html>
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