--- Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia@nic.funet.fi> wrote:
Are those Arabic OCR software open source and free?
I don't know, I merely pointed you all to the research that is going on in this area. My hope was that one/several of our volunteers who are interested in and have previous experience in PG Arabic etexts would get in touch with the project and find out what they are doing.
Having no Arabic OCR software has not prevented us from digitizing Arabic texts earlier. If only buying a $$$$ software gets you motivated to digitize arabic texts, then it is fine by me.
It's not the digitization method, but the books that come out of the process that are my concern. Who cares how he does it - if that guy does all the scanning and work, what harm is there in asking if he will share his collection with PG? If not, fine. Cheers, Maitri __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com