1. Digitizing Arabic Text: Where are we today?
Elizabeth A. S. Beaudin
Yale University Library
Project AMEEL

3. اللـُغَة العَرَبـِـيَّة
اللغة العربية
the Arabic language
اللـُغَة العَرَبـِـيَّة

9. Victor
42n56 78w44
Alexandria
31n12, 29e54
New Haven
41n18, 72w56
Ann Arbor
42n17, 83w45
Halle
51n29, 11e58
Leiden
52n10, 4e30

10. Outsourcing
Kirtas APT Bookscan 2400

11. In house …
Indus 5002 Book Scanner

12. Processing (Image enhancement)
after
before

13. Sakhr vs. 9 Interface

14. Sakhr -- Increasing accuracy

15. VERUS vs. 2 – interface

16. VERUS – increasing accuracy

17. 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

18. Accuracy?
Averages
Conditions
Improvement
Decisions

19. Software suite Scanning: proprietary to Indus and Kirtas
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

22. FEDORA framework Indexed and searchable in Arabic
Full Text repository
FEDORA framework
Indexed and searchable in Arabic