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From: Richard M. Stallman <rm...@gn...>
Reply-To: rm...@gn...
To: Sunil Abraham <su...@ap...>
Subject: OCR and spell-checking for Asian scripts
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:33:31 -0400
Were you the one who was interested in the status of
spell-checking support and OCR for Asian scripts?
If it wasn't you, do you recall who it was?
I investigated this question, and found that
GNU aspell can handle nearly all of Unicode, provided
that a dictionary is available. However, there are
specific problems with a few Asian scripts.
See http://aspell.net/man-html/Unsupported.html.
Some Asian languages already have dictionaries.
See http://aspell.net/man-html/Supported.html.
However, OCR is another matter. The best free OCR program is GNU
Ocrad. Its author says that each letter needs to be implemented by
hand--so that implementing a new alphabet is a lot of work.
He would be willing to act as a guide to whoever wants to
implement a new alphabet, but such a person has to be very capable
in order to do more than just waste his time.
--=20
Sunil Abraham, su...@ma... http://www.mahiti.org
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