07-04-2012, 06:44 AM | #1 |
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Arabic sentences/words
I have a few arabic words/sentences in a scan. I would like to have this in UTF, but ABBYY and online OCR's choke on it. I think because it looks handwritten.
Is there perhaps someone on this forum that can speak/write arabic and convert this to UTF text for me? If it would help to identify, I can give a rough translation of the words. I would like to have it as text in my ePUB instead of an image, hence the question. |
07-04-2012, 07:53 AM | #2 |
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Note that Adobe-based readers cannot currently (or so it was last time I checked) render right-to-left text, so even if your source is fine, the final text will be wrong (and inverting the character sequence to make it look OK is a no-no, pleaso don't do that).
If you are no so much concerned about howi to looks now, but want to have a well-coded ePub that has the right content and will (hopefully) work fine in futere readers, then go on, that's the way. I don't speak or read Arabic, but it can be fun decoding the printed text with a character table. If you need more help, you could try at http://forum.wordreference.com/ I've always found helpful and knowledgeable people there. |
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07-04-2012, 10:10 AM | #3 |
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I know about the support issue with right to left, But that is not a problem in this case. A well formed book its much more important to me. Thanks for the tip.
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