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> __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail