"Dave Fawthrop" writes:

Maybe a friend of a friend of someone on gutvol-d?

I don't think it's helpful to try and push people into handling a entire specific book right at the start, especially without OCR.

There are quite a lot of people who can read Classical Arabic,

There's a lot of language communities out there that PG doesn't have much contact with.

Unicode has all the characters required. Also right to left writing.

Unicode has pretty much all the letters we need, sans the myriad varietes of early 20th-century phonetic characters. That doesn't mean we can transcribe them easily.

Also because Arabic is a language designed for calligraphy, a page scan of a well written copy would be useful.

It's not really any different from English. A page of English calligraphy may be beautiful, but it's not a text version. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm