HarfBuzz is an open source text-shaping engine with a C API that turns fonts and strings of character codes into a form that is correctly arranged for the corresponding language and writing system. This is essentially the process of text shaping: translating a string of character codes into a properly arranged sequence of glyphs that can be rendered onto a screen or into final output form for inclusion in a document. This shaping depends on a number of factors: the input string, the active...
When translating becomes a game ! Text to translate can be graphically selected. Several dictionnaries can be sorted according to the context. A large choice of matching strategies is available. The OCR engine is tunable.