1. Digitizing Arabic Text: Where are we today?
Elizabeth A. S. Beaudin
Yale University Library
Project AMEEL
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3. اللغة العربية اللـُغَة العَرَبـِـيَّة the Arabic language
اللـُغَة العَرَبـِـيَّة
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Outsourcing
Kirtas APT Bookscan 2400
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In house …
Indus 5002 Book Scanner
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11. Processing (Image enhancement)
after
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Sakhr vs. 9 Interface
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13. Sakhr -- Increasing accuracy
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VERUS vs. 2 – interface
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15. VERUS – increasing accuracy
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16. comparison of features and uses
Sakhr
Character by character
Font libraries
Output choices: Unicode text, proprietary, html
Learning approach to improving accuracy
Use of dongle for copyright
Handles batch processing well
Desktop and SDK versions
VERUS
Word by word
Custom dictionary
Output choices: searchable PDF or UTF-8 text
Good with degraded documents
Use of dongle to track quantity
Handles mix of languages better
API version for customization
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Accuracy?
Averages
Conditions
Improvement
Decisions
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Software suite
Digitization Workflow
Scanning: proprietary to Indus and Kirtas
Processing: PhotoShop, ScanFix, ACDSee, Unifier, SuperEdi
OCR: Sakhr OCR-Gold and font libraries, VERUS v2
Staging and Archiving: ACDSee, customized scripts
Workflow control: MS Access, customized scripts
Repository Development
Fedora Repository Framework, PHP, MySQL, REST, Java
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21. FEDORA framework Indexed and searchable in Arabic
Full Text repository
FEDORA framework
Indexed and searchable in Arabic
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