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From: thamer@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mustafa Thamer)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.islam
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Machine readable Qur'an
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Date: 7 Dec 89 16:49:02 GMT
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In article <1890@accuvax.nwu.edu> naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) writes:
>
>1) Somebody with access to a scanner can scan in a whole translation.
>This would ensure accuracy and also capture the Arabic text. However
>the resultant output would be a bitmap image rather than ASCII text.
>It would only be viewable on workstation monitors.
>
Not necessarily true, there a quite a few OCR packages that may be able
to pull the text off a bitmap image and produce ascii text.  These are
not cheap, and they are not perfect, but they do work.  Anyone have access
to one where you can selectively box the area of the image that you want
to convert to ascii?

-Mustafa Thamer
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